Table 11-5. Physical Drive Menu Options - Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 3 User Manual

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Select Enabled to enable Virtual Sizing.
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After you have created a logical drive set, the partition of the drive
should be as large as the virtual size of the logical drive. After you have
created a logical array set, the drive partition can be as large as the full
size of the logical drive. However, this is the full virtual drive size, not
the actual physical drive size.
Physical Drive
Select Objects—> Physical Drive to select a physical device and to perform
the operations listed in the table below. The physical drives in the computer
are listed. Move the cursor to the desired device and press <Enter> to
display the screen.
Table 11-5 displays the operations you can perform on the physical drives.
Ta b l e 1 1 - 5 . P h y s i c a l D r i v e M e n u O p t i o n s
Option Description
Rebuild Rebuilds the selected physical drive.
Format Low-level formats the selected disk drive.
Force Online Changes the state of the selected disk drive to online.
Force Offline/ Changes the state of the selected disk drive to offline.
Remove HSP
Make HotSpare Designates the selected disk drive as a hot spare.
View Drive Displays the drive properties for the selected physical device.
Information
View Rebuild Indicates how much of the rebuild has been completed.
Progress
SCSI Command Sets the number of queue tags per command. The options
are Disabled Command Tagging, 2 Queue Tags, 3 Queue
Qtagging
Tags, 4 Queue Tags, or Enhanced QTag Scheduling. The
default is Enhanced QTag Scheduling.
Transfer Speed Selects the speed at which data is transferred. Displays a
Option menu that contains the options Negotiation=Wide, and Set
Transfer Speed. The maximum transfer speed is 160M.