Managing Physical Drives : Initializing an Enhanced Physical Drive

Initializing an Enhanced Physical Drive

If your system is in SDS personality mode and if you have any enhanced physical drives (EPDs), you can initialize those EPD drives.

NOTE  Initialization erases all data on the virtual drive. Before starting this operation, back up any data that you want to keep.

1.

Navigate to the Controller dashboard and click the Drives tab.

All of the associated drives appear.

Figure 4. Drive Initialization - EPD Drives

2.

Expand EPD and select an EPD that you want to erase.

3.

Select Actions > More Actions > Start Initialize.

The Start Initialize option appears

Figure 5. Drive Initialization - Start Initialization

A warning message appears asking for your confirmation.

4.

Either select Fast Initialization or Yes, Start Initialization to start initializing the EPD.