Viewing The Controller Status; Viewing The Configuration; Using The Advanced Configuration Functions - IBM 86655RY - Netfinity 7600 - 8665 Hardware Maintenance Manual

Viewing the controller status

When you select View Controller Status from the Main Menu, the following
information appears on the screen:
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Viewing the configuration

You can select View Configuration from the Main Menu to display the number of
each logical drive, and to display the size, RAID level, state, stripe-unit size, write
policy, read-ahead status, and creation date for each logical drive.

Using the advanced configuration functions

You can select the Advanced Functions to restore the controller configuration to
factory default settings, copy the configuration to the controller from the connected
physical drives, configure BIOS settings, and view the controller and PCI information.
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All physical drives and their states
Unattended shows the current state of the Unattended mode.
— When this option is set to Off, you can choose the recovery method when a
ServeRAID controller startup error occurs.
— When this option is set to On, the ServeRAID controller chooses the recovery
method when a startup error occurs.
Read Ahead shows the current state of the read-ahead cache mode.
BootCD shows the current state of the Bootable CD-ROM function (not supported
in ServeRAID-4 family of products.)
CompMode shows the current BIOS compatibility mode. Off indicates 8 gigabyte
(GB) Extended; On indicated 2 gigabyte (GB) Limited.
Clustered shows the current state for clustering.
BBWC shows the cache size of the battery-backup write cache, if it is installed (for
example, 8 = 8 MB, 32 = 32 MB, etc.) or No if there is a no battery-backup write
cache installed.
Boot Blk shows the version number of the startable microcode (or firmware)
loaded for the ServeRAID controller.
Code Blk shows the current version number of the microcode (or firmware)
loaded for the ServeRAID controller.
Rebuild Rate shows the current speed setting for rebuilds: High, Medium, or
Low.
Number of Defunct drives shows the current number of defunct physical drives.
Number of Offline drives shows the current number of offline logical drives.
Number of Critical drives shows the current number of critical logical drives.
Config. Updates shows the number of times that the configuration has been
changed since it has been initialized. When you initialize the configuration, the
Config. Update resets to zero.
Bad Stripe, Locked Stripe, or Blocked Drive identifies the logical drives that are
affected.
— Bad Stripe Drives indicates logical drives that have inaccessible areas.
— Locked Stripe Drives is a reserved field.
— Blocked Drives indicates the logical drives that are blocked. You must
unblock a blocked drive before you can use it. See "Logical drive state
descriptions" on page 203 for more information.