Chapter 9: Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares ● 77
Creating a Logical Drive Using Available Space
Free segments on a disk drive can be used to create a new logical drive.
(A segment can only be used in one logical drive at a time.)
To create a logical drive using free segments on disk drives:
1 Complete Steps 1 through 5 in Custom Configuration (Advanced) on
page 51.
2 In the Physical Devices panel, select the disk drives and/or free disk
drive segments you want to use in the logical drive.
In the example below, two free disk drive segments (indicated in
blue) are used to create a RAID 1 logical drive.
3 Click Next.
4 Review the logical drive settings.
5 Click Apply, then click Ye s .
Adaptec Storage Manager builds the logical drive. The configuration
is saved in the Adaptec controller and in the physical drives.
Free segments and available disk drives are blue
