Chapter 6: Modifying Your Direct Attached Storage ● 60Creating and Modifying Logical DrivesFor basic instructions for creating logical drives, see Building Your Storage Space on page 25.This section describes three additional scenarios for creating logical drives, and providesinstructions for modifying a logical drive as it’s being created.● To create a new logical drive of a specified size, see the following section.● To create a logical drive from different-sized disk drives, see page 61.● To create a logical drive using available segments of disk drives, see page 62.● To stop the creation of a new logical drive, see page 62.● To change the priority of a new logical drive’s creation, see page 62.Creating a Logical Drive of a Specified SizeAs described in Step 7 on page 38, Adaptec Storage Manager automatically sets the size of anew logical drive to maximize the capacity of the disk drives that it comprises. However, youcan choose to set the size for a new logical drive. You may want to do this to maximize youravailable disk drive space, or allocate available space to more than one logical drive.To set the size of a logical drive:1 Complete Steps 1 through 7 in Custom Configuration (Advanced) on page 37.2 Click Advanced Settings.The maximum size of the logical drive appears in the Size (GB) box.3 Enter the new size for the logical drive. The size you enter must be less than or equal to themaximum size.4 Click Next.5 Review the logical drive settings, click Apply, then click Yes.Adaptec Storage Manager builds the logical drive. The configuration is saved in theAdaptec controller and in the physical drives.If the disk drives you used to create this logical drive have available space left over, you canuse them to create a new logical drive (see page 62), or to expand an existing logical drive(see page 69).
