TABLE B-1General Settings (Continued)

Option

Description

 

 

Removable Media

When enabled, removable media devices, such as CD drives, are

Devices Boot

supported.

Support

 

Alarm Control

When enabled, the alarm sounds. Default is enabled.

 

Note—When the alarm is turned off (disabled), it automatically

 

turns back on after a reboot.

SATA Native

When enabled, NCQ is enabled. Disable this feature if you want

Command Queuing

to attach more than 48 SATA II disk drives. Available with SATA II

(NCQ)

disk drives only.

 

 

To Modify SAS-Specific REM Settings With a - Select Utility

In addition to the general settings listed on“To Modify General Settings With a - Select Utility” on page 54, the Sun Blade RAID 5 Expansion Module has SAS-specific settings that can be modified if required.

Select PHY Configuration from the SerialSelect main menu and change the settings listed in the following table.

Note – Default settings are shown in bold type.

TABLE B-2SAS-Specific REM Settings

Option

Description

 

 

PHY Rate

The data transfer rate between the REM and devices. The default setting is

 

Auto, which allows the SAS card to adjust the data transfer rate as

 

required.

CRC

When enabled, determines whether the REM verifies the accuracy of data

Checking

transfer on the serial bus. Default setting is Yes (enabled). Set to No

 

(disabled) only if the REM is connected to a device that does not support

 

CRC Checking.

SAS

In a situation where you want each phy on a REM to be in a different SAS

Address

domain, this setting specifies a unique world-wide name for each phy.

 

Default is 0.

 

Note: This setting is for SAS address conflict resolution only and must

 

otherwise remain at its default value.

 

 

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