PHY Properties Screen
The PHY Properties screen enables you to view and modify PHY specific settings. To access PHY Properties, press Enter on the PHY Properties field from the Advanced Adaptor Properties screen.
You can perform the following actions from PHY Properties:.
•To display the next PHY, press N.
•To display the previous PHY, press P.
•To reset the Link Error Counts for this PHY or all PHYs, press Enter on Reset Link Error Counts. Resetting Link Error Counts issues a PHY Link Error Reset. The following prompt displays when you press Enter:
Are you sure you want to reset Phy error counts?
Reset error counts for this Phy only
Reset error counts for all Phys
Cancel
NOTE: The Link Error Settings values on this screen display the current values for this PHY only, and are not modifiable. To modify the Threshold values, you must return to Advanced Adapter Properties screen.
PHY | Displays the PHY number current information. | |
SAS Port | Indicates the associated SAS Port (0 to N) as configured on this | |
| adapter. | |
Link Status | Indicates the PHY link status. Possible values are: | |
| • Enabled, Unknown Link Rate | |
| • | PHY Disabled |
| • | Enabled, negotiation failed |
| • Enabled, SATA OOB Complete | |
| • | Enabled, 1.5 Gbs |
| • | Enabled, 3.0 Gbs |
Discovery Status | 32 bit hexidecimal value indicating the discovery status for the PHY | |
| or Expander. Currently defined values are: | |
| • Discovery completed successfully - 0x00000000 | |
| • | Loop Detected - 0x00000001 |
| • Unaddressable device exists - 0x00000002 | |
| • | Multiple Ports - 0x00000004 |
| • | Expander Error - 0x00000008 |
| • | SMP Timeout - 0x00000010 |
| • Out of route entries - 0x00000020 | |
| • SMP Response Index Does Not Exist - 0x00000040 | |
| • SMP Response Function Failed - 0x00000080 | |
| • SMP CRC error - 0x00000100 | |
Device Identifier | Indicates the ASCII device identifier string extracted from the | |
| device's Inquiry Data. | |
Scan Order | Indicates the scan order for this device (equivalent of a SCSI ID for | |
| parallel SCSI). | |
Device Information | Indicates if a device is SAS. | |
SAS Address | Indicates the SAS Address of this device. | |
Link Error Setting | • Invalid DWORDs - Number of invalid dwords that have been | |
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| received outside of PHY reset sequences, since the last PHY |
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| Link Error Reset. a |
• Loss of DWORD Sync - Number of times, since the last PHY Link Error Reset, that dword synchronization was lost and the link reset sequence occurred.a
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