Running A Patrol Read - LSI X79 Extreme11 User Manual

If the drives are in a disk enclosure, you can identify which drive is represented by a disk icon on
the left. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Click the drive icon in the left panel.
2. Select Go To->Physical Drive->Start Locating Drive tab in the right panel.
The LED on the drive in the enclosure starts blinking to show its location.
Note:
3. To stop the drive light on the enclosure from blinking, select Go To->Physical Drive->Stop
Locating Drive.

Running a Patrol Read

A patrol read periodically verifies all sectors of the drives connected to a controller, including the
system reserved area in the RAID configured drives. You can run a patrol read for all RAID levels
and for all hot spare drives. A patrol read is initiated only when the controller is idle for a defined
period and has no other background activities.
You can set the patrol read properties and start the patrol read operation, or you can start the
patrol read without changing the properties.
1. Click a controller icon in the left panel.
2. Select Go To->Controller->Set Patrol Read Properties or right-click on a controller and
select Set Patrol Read Properties from the menu.
The Patrol Read - Set properties window appears, as shown in the following figure.
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3. Select an operation mode for patrol read from the following options:
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LEDs on drives that are global hot spares do not blink.
Patrol Read - Set Properties
Automatic: Patrol read runs automatically at the time interval you specify on this window.
Manual: Patrol read runs only when you manually start it, by selecting Start Patrol Read
from the controller options window.
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