VTrak 15110 User Manual
Physical Drive Management
The term Physical Drive refers to a Hard Disk Drive, as compared to a Logical Drive that is made up of one or more physical or disk drives. This manual uses the terms physical drive and disk drive interchangeably.
From the Main Menu, press 2 and Enter to access Physical Drive Management.
**********Physical Drive (PD) Assignment**********
ID NameCapacity Write Cache Status
1 | ST3160023AS | 159 GB | Enabled | Assigned(LD 1) |
2 | WDC WD1200JD | 119 GB | Enabled | Error |
3 | WDC WD1200JD | 119 GB | Enabled | Assigned(LD 1) |
4 | WDC WD1200JD | 119 GB | Enabled | Assigned(LD 1) |
5 | Maxtor 6Y080M0 | 81 GB | Disabled | Free |
7 | ST3160023AS | 159 GB | Enabled | Dedicated(LD 1) |
Physical Drive Management
1.View Parameters
2.Enable/Disable Write Cache
3.Wipe Out Boot Sector
4.Wipe Out Reserved Sector
5.Blink Led
6.Diagnostics
7.IO Statistics
R. Return to Previous Menu
Please enter your menu choice>
The physical drive assignment lists all disk drives by their placement in the VTrak chassis, from left to right, 1 to 15, along with make, model, capacity, write cache status and assignment status.
Status is reported for each disk drive as follows:
•Free – Not assigned to any logical drive
•Assigned(LD 1) – Assigned to logical drive 1
•Dedicated(LD 1) – Assigned as a dedicated hot spare for logical drive 1
•Error – This drive is present but offline. You cannot use this drive
•No ID number – There is no drive in this channel or VTrak does not recognize the drive
To create a logical drive, see page 165.
To specify a hot spare drive, see page 168.
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