5.3View Connected Drives:

A RAID system consists of many physical drives that can be modified and configured as the members of one or several logical drives.

Press the front panel ENT button for two seconds to enter the Main Menu. Use or to navigate through the menus. Choose "View and Edit SCSI Drives," then press ENT.

View and Edit SCSI Drives

Use or to scroll down the list of connected drives’ information screens.

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You may first examine whether there is any drive installed but not shown here. If there is a drive installed but not listed, the drive may be defective or not installed correctly, please check your enclosure installation and contact your system vendor.

Press ENT on a drive. Choose "View Drive Information" by pressing ENT. Use or to navigate through the screens.

View Drive Information ..

The Revision Number of the selected SCSI drive will be shown. Press to see other information.

Other information screens include "Serial Number" and "Disk Capacity" (displayed in blocks- each block equals 512K Bytes).

Revision Number: 0274

IMPORTANT!

Drives of the same brand/model/capacity might not have the same block number.

The basic read/write unit of a hard drive is block. If members of a logical drive have different block numbers (capacity), the smallest block number will be taken as the maximum capacity to be used in every drive. Therefore, use drives of the same capacity.

You may assign a Local/Global Spare Drive to a logical drive whose members has a block number equal or smaller than the Local/Global Spare Drive but you should not do the reverse.

Front Panel Operation

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