Chapter 6: Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares ● 71Creating a Logical Drive Using Available SpaceFree segments on a disk drive can be used to create a new logical drive. (A segment can only beused 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 49.2 In the Physical Devices panel, select the disk drives and/or free disk drive segments youwant to use in the logical drive.Note: Adaptec recommends that you not combine SAS and SATA disk drives within the samelogical drive. Adaptec Storage Manager generates a warning if you try to create a logical driveusing a combination of SAS and SATA disk drives.In this example, two free disk drive segments (indicated in blue) are used to create a RAID 1logical drive.3 Click Next.4 Review the logical drive settings.5 Click Apply, then click Yes.Adaptec Storage Manager builds the logical drive. The configuration is saved in theAdaptec controller and in the physical drives.Free segmentsand availabledisk drives areblue
