Appendix C: Software Installation: Adaptec's SATA HostRAID Utility
Physical Devices
The Physical Devices view displays information about the drives and enclosures attached to the Adaptec RAID controller. The devices are shown organized by the channel or port that they are connected to and shown in numerical order.
The display for each channel includes information on maximum speed capability, the number of the channel on the controller, and the number of devices found (excluding the SCSI controller).
Selecting a channel or device will turn the Events, Properties, and Tasks buttons amber. This indicates that clicking any of these buttons will display an additional window with information and options specific to that device or channel.
At the top of the Physical Devices view, grouped to the right of View, are three view selection buttons. These buttons select the physical devices connected to this controller.
Changing How Drives are Displayed
By default, the Physical Devices displays a condensed view of the controller configuration that hides detailed information about the drives. More information is available by either positioning the mouse pointer over the device or clicking on the arrowhead to the left of a row of devices.
The selected display mode button will appear in a lighter shade of blue than the other two buttons. The default display is the Text Description View, but in the condensed view used when Adaptec Storage Manager is loaded, the display is the same in all three modes.
If you change the display mode by selecting one of the other view buttons, a yellow arrow flashes to the left of any devices where the condensed display prevents omits information.
An icon is always the first entry on each device line. The | icon is |
used to represent a hard disk drive. If a + symbol appears with the hard
disk drive icon 
, the drive is a hot spare. Different icons are used to represent other devices.
View
is the default display mode and when expanded, will show the following information about each device:
*Capacity of the drive
*Drive manufacturer and model number
*SCSI drive ID, or Serial ATA port number
