Promise Technology M500p, M500i, M500f, M300p, M300i, M300f, M200i manual Alias, Physical Drive Coercion

Chapter 5: Management with the CLU

2.Highlight Controller Management and press Enter.

3.Highlight the controller you want and press Enter.

4.Highlight Controller Settings and press Enter.

From this point, you can make settings to the Alias, Coercion and SMART functions.

Alias

An alias is optional. To set an Alias for this controller:

1.Type and alias into the Alias field.

Maximum of 48 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between words and underscore.

2.Press Ctrl-A to save your settings.

Physical Drive Coercion

Physical Drive Coercion is a function of the RAID system to adjust for physical drives of different sizes by reducing or coercing the capacity of the larger drives to match the smaller ones.

To enable/disable coercion:

1.Highlight Coercion and press the spacebar to toggle between Enable and Disable.

2.Highlight Coercion Method and press the spacebar to toggle through:

•GB Truncate – Reduces the capacity to the nearest 1 GB boundary

•10 GB Truncate – Reduces the capacity to the nearest 10 GB boundary

•Grp (group) Rounding – Uses an algorithm to determine truncation. Results in the maximum amount of usable drive capacity

•Table Rounding – Applies a predefined table to determine truncation

3.Press Ctrl-A to save your settings.

SMART

SMART is the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting function of physical drives. The Controller polls the physical drives for problems and reports the results.

To make SMART settings:

1.Highlight SMART and press the spacebar to toggle between Enable and Disable.

2.Highlight SMART Poll Interval and press the backspace key to erase the current value.

3.Type a new interval value in minutes. 1 to 1440 minutes (24 hours)

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