Promise Technology 15110 user manual Physical Drive Information

VTrak 15110 User Manual

Physical Drive Information

•Slot No – This is the Controller channel ID number to which this physical drive is attached. If you have a drive on a channel but it does not appear in WebPAM, there is a bad connection.

•Physical Drive Model – The drive manufacturer's identification.

•Physical Drive Capacity – The effective data storage capacity in gigabytes. This is total capacity, not available capacity.

•Physical Drive Status – The functional status of an individual disk drive.

•Functional means normal.

•Disk is being rebuilt means this drive is the Target Drive of the rebuild operation that is in progress.

•Disk Offline means this drive is not available for use due to an error. See Rebuild Logical Drive.

•Status – Refers to assignable status of an individual disk drive.

•Free means available for use in a Disk Array.

•Assigned means that it currently belongs to the Disk Array shown.

•Spare means it has been designated as a Hot Spare.

•Error means not available due to a problem with this physical drive.

•S.M.A.R.T. Status – This refers to Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology, a form of predictive failure analysis that examines disk drive behavior for indications of a coming failure.

•Healthy means there are no indications of trouble.

•Alert means there have been indications that the disk drive could fail soon. If you see an alert, back up your data, then remove and test the disk drive.

•Disabled means the SMART has been disabled or is not a feature of this disk drive. You must enable SMART function for each Logical Drive.

To see more information about a specific disk drive, click on its icon.

Physical Drive

The Physical Drive–Information tab gives a description and reports the status of the hard disk drives (physical drives) in the enclosure. To access a physical drive:

1.Click the Subsystem icon.

2.Click on the VTrak icon.

3.Click on the Enclosures icon.

4.Click on the Enclosure icon.

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