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9 Maintaining Physical Devices
9.6 Initializing and Uninitializing Physical Drives
This section describes how to initialize/uninitialize NVMe drives to enable the erased drive, erase data and meta-data (including logical drive information) from the NVMe SSDs in your storage space. You can initialize or uninitialize individual NVMe drives, or use the wizard to initialize/uninitialize all NVMe drives on a controller.

1 About this Guide
2 Introduction to maxView Storage Manager
This section introduces the maxView Storage Manager software, explains the concept of “storage space” and provides a checklist of getting-started tasks.
3 Installing maxView Storage Manager
4 Exploring maxView Storage Manager
This section familiarizes you with the main features of the maxView Storage Manager graphical user interface. It describes how to start and login to maxView Storage Manager. It also explains how to get help and log out of maxView Storage Manager when you are finished working with the application.
5 Building Your Storage Space
6 Protecting Your Data
7 Modifying Your Storage Space
This section provides additional scenarios for creating and modifying arrays and logical drives. It explains how to check your logical drives for bad or inconsistent data; optimize controller and logical drive performance; and perform advanced operations, such as creating a split mirror backup array.
8 Working with Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM)
9 Maintaining Physical Devices
- 9.1 Viewing Device Properties
- 9.2 Locating Drives in Your Storage Space
- 9.3 Working with Physical Device Error Counters
- 9.4 Working with Failed or Failing Physical Drives
- 9.5 Erasing a Physical Drive
- 9.6 Initializing and Uninitializing Physical Drives
  This section describes how to initialize/uninitialize NVMe drives to enable the erased drive, erase data and meta-data (including logical drive information) from the NVMe SSDs in your storage space. You can initialize or uninitialize individual NVMe drives, or use the wizard to initialize/uninitialize all NVMe drives on a controller.
  - 9.6.1 Initializing/Uninitializing a Physical Drive
  - 9.6.2 Initializing/Uninitializing all Drives on a Controller
- 9.7 Working with Controllers
- 9.8 Updating Accelerator and Physical Drive Firmware
10 Monitoring Status and Activity
This section describes how maxView Storage Manager helps you monitor status and activity in your storage space.
11 Managing Your Storage Space
12 Solving Problems
This section describes how to troubleshoot the components in your storage space.
13 Silent Installation on Linux
14 Configuring SNMP Notifications on Linux
15 Selecting the Best RAID Level
16 Icons At-a-Glance
17 Smart Controller Device Status
18 Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device and a Physical Device
19 Revision History
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9.6 Initializing and Uninitializing Physical Drives

This section describes how to initialize/uninitialize NVMe drives to enable the erased drive, erase data and meta-data (including logical drive information) from the NVMe SSDs in your storage space. You can initialize or uninitialize individual NVMe drives, or use the wizard to initialize/uninitialize all NVMe drives on a controller.