VTrak 15110 User Manual
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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 Name Capacity Write Cache Status
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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)
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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 St atis tics
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 ma ke, 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 page165.
To specify a hot spare drive, see page 168.