Promise Technology EX8650, EX8658, EX8654, EX4650 Accessing the Main Menu, SuperBuild Main Menu

SuperTrak EX Series User Manual

Accessing the Main Menu

The opening screen of the SuperBuild utility is the Main Menu.

Figure 4. SuperBuild Main Menu

The Main Menu (above) has nine options:

•Controller Selection – Select which of two SuperTrak controllers you want to access, if you have two SuperTraks installed in the Host PC

•Controller Information – Memory type and size, Firmware and BIOS version numbers, and address information that may be helpful for diagnostic purposes

•Physical Drive Management – A list of physical drives attached to the SuperTrak controller, their ID (channel) numbers, model numbers, capacity, and status

•Disk Array Management – A list of disk arrays attached to the SuperTrak controller, the assigned physical drives, logical drives, capacity, and status

•Logical Drive Management – A list of logical drives plus create and delete logical drive functions

•Spare Drive Management– A list of hot spare drives, their characteristics and status

•Background Activity – A list of logical drives, any current background activity, logical drive status and percentage of activity completed. Background activities include: Rebuild, Initialize, Synchronize, Migrate, and Pause/Resume

•Event Log – A list of events stored in RAM (since startup) or non-volatile RAM (since the log was cleared) for diagnosis

•Time Sync – Enables you to set the time zone and synchronize system time and date with the embedded site

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