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

Drive & Eclosure Management

Chapter 6

Managing Disk Drives & Enclosures

SAM lets you control a variety of functions related to devices and enclosure management processor (EMP) enclosures connected to your Galaxy 65 Subsystem.

•For devices, you can:

–Display device information (see page 53)

–Clear metadata from a disk drive (see page 54)

–Enable or disable write-back cache (see page 55)

–Display disk cache status (see page 55)

–Enable or disable changes to SMART (see page 55)

–Blink a drive LED (see page 56)

–Take down a disk drive (see page 56)

–Test a disk drive (see page 57)

•For EMP enclosures, you can:

–Change the EMP LUN (see page 57)

–Change additional EMP settings (see page 58)

6.1Managing Disk Drives

SAM 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.

6.1.1 Displaying Disk Drive Information

You can display two types of information about disk drives:

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

•The status of all disk drives in an array

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