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5. Highlight the following parameters and press the spacebar to toggle though
the available choices:
• Stripe size – Press the spacebar to choose: 64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB,
512 KB, or 1 MB
• Sector size – Press the spacebar to choose: 512 B; 1 KB, 2 KB, or 4 KB
• Write Policy – Press spacebar to choose: Write Back or Write Through
• Read Policy – Press spacebar to choose: No Cache, Read Cache, or
Read Ahead Cache
6. Highlight Number of Axles and press the spacebar to choose the number of
axles. Applies to RAID 50 and 60 only.
7. Press Ctrl-A to save your settings.
Deleting a Logical Drive
To delete a logical drive from a disk array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the disk array that contains the logical drive you want to delete and
press Enter.
3. Highlight the logical drive you want to delete and press the spacebar to mark
it.
The mark is an asterisk (*) to the left of the listing.
4. Highlight Delete Marked Logical Drives and press Enter.
5. Press Y to confirm the deletion.
Note
If you did not use all of the available capacity of the disk array, you
can create an additional logical drive at this point.
Caution
When you delete a logical drive, you delete all the data it contains.
Back up all important data before deleting a logical drive.