Promise Technology EX8650 manual Viewing Physical Drive Statistics, Making Physical Drive Settings

SuperTrak EX Series User Manual

Viewing Physical Drive Information

To view physical drive information:

1.Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.

2.Click the Enclosures icon.

3.Click the Enclosure icon.

4.Click the Physical Drives icon.

5.Click a Physical Drive icon.

Useful information provided here includes:

•Operational Status – OK is normal. Can also show Rebuilding, Forced Online, Forced Offline, Transition Running, PDM Running, Media Patrol Running, Stale, PFA, Offline or Dead.

•Configuration Status – The array to which the drive is assigned or its spare designation, including Unconfigured, Stale, PFA, Global Spare, Dedicated Spare, Revertible Global Spare, Revertible Dedicated Spare.

Adjustable Items

•Write Cache – Enabled or disabled as chosen on the Physical Drives Settings tab.

•Read Look Ahead (Cache) – Enabled or disabled as chosen on the Physical Drives Settings tab.

•Command Queuing – SATA only. Enabled or disabled.

See “Making Global Physical Drive Settings” on page 147.

Viewing Physical Drive Statistics

To view physical drive statistics:

1.Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.

2.Click the Enclosures icon.

3.Click the Enclosure icon.

4.Click the Physical Drives icon.

5.Click a Physical Drive icon.

6.From the dropdown menu on the Information tab, choose Statistics.

Making Physical Drive Settings

The only individual physical drive setting is an alias. An alias is optional. To set an alias for a physical drive:

1.Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.

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