Promise Technology 15110 user manual PDM Auto Start, Auto Rebuilding

Chapter 5: Management with the CLU

11	ST380013AS	80 GB
12	WDC WD1200JD-00FYB0	120 GB

Enter Physical Drive ID to select.

Press R to continue after you have finished selecting Physical Drive.

Your input?>9

3.If you change to a Dedicated hot spare drive, type the ID number of one available physical drive and press Enter.

*********Physical Drives Selection*********

ID NameCapacity

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*9	WDC WD1200JD-00FYB0	120 GB
11	ST380013AS	80 GB
12	WDC WD1200JD-00FYB0	120 GB

Enter Physical Drive ID to select.

Press R to continue after you have finished selecting Physical Drive.

Your input?>r

4.Press R and Enter to confirm the hot spare drive policy change. The Screen returns to the Disk Array Properties menu.

Note: Be sure Auto Rebuilding is enabled (below).

Auto Rebuilding

Use this feature to enable the automatic rebuilding of a disk array that has gone critical. This function must be enabled in order for a hot spare drive to work. See Hot Spare Policy, above. To rebuild a disk array manually, see .

1.Press 9 and Enter to access the Auto Rebuilding Option.

Enable auto rebuilding for Disk Array 1(y/n)?>y

2.Press Y and Enter to enable Auto Rebuilding. Press N and Enter to leave the setting unchanged.

The Screen returns to the Disk Array Properties menu.

PDM Auto Start

PDM (Predictive Data Migration) is a maintenance operation. VTrak checks the bad block remapping table and keeps a count of disk drive errors. When these reach the user-specified limits, PDM will migrate the data from the suspect disk drive to a replacement.

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