Galaxy Metal Gear 65 manual Managing Disk Drives and Enclosures, Displaying Drive Information

Managing Drives & Enclosures

Appendix F

Managing Disk Drives and Enclosures

Using the Disk Array Administrator, you can control a variety of functions related to disk drives and enclosure management processor (EMP) enclosures connected to your Galaxy 65 Subsystem.

•For drives, you can:

–Display drive information (see page 173)

–Clear metadata from a drive (see page 177)

–Enable/disable write-back cache (see page 177)

–Display disk cache status (see page 179)

–Enable/disable changes to SMART (see page 181)

–Blink a drive LED (see page 182)

–Take down a drive (see page 182)

–Test a drive (see page 183)

•For EMP enclosures, you can:

–Change the EMP LUN (see page 184)

–Change additional EMP settings (see page 187)

F.1 Managing Disk Drives

The Disk Array Administrator software lets you control a variety of functions related to disk drives. You should also refer to your disk drive or enclosure documentation for information about related functions.

F.1.1 Displaying Drive Information

You can display three types of information about disk drives:

•A list of all drives connected to the Galaxy 65 Subsystem

•The status of all drives in an array

•Errors on a specific drive and reset error statistics

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