Physical Drive Management - Promise Technology VTRAK 15200 User Manual

VTrak 15200 User Manual

Physical Drive Management

The term Physical Drive refers to a Hard Disk Drive, as compared to a Logical
Drive that is made up of one or more physical or disk drives. This manual uses
the terms physical drive and disk drive interchangeably.
From the Main Menu, press 2 and Enter to access Physical Drive Management.
**********Physical Drive (PD) Assignment**********
ID Name
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1
2
3
4
5
7
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Physical Drive Management
1. View Parameters
2. Enable/Disable Write Cache
3. Wipe Out Boot Sector
4. Wipe Out Reserved Sector
5. Blink Led
6. Diagnostics
7. IO Statistics
R. Return to Previous Menu
Please enter your menu choice>
The physical drive assignment lists all disk drives by their placement in the VTrak
chassis, from left to right, 1 to 15, along with make, model, capacity, write cache
status and assignment status.
Status is reported for each disk drive as follows:
• Free – Not assigned to any logical drive
• Assigned in LD 1 – Assigned to logical drive 1
• Dedicated for LD 1 – Assigned as a dedicated hot spare for logical drive 1
• Error – This drive is present but offline. You cannot use this drive
• No ID number – There is no drive in this channel or VTrak does not
recognize the drive
To create a logical drive, see page 145.
To specify a hot spare drive, see page 150.
ST3160023AS
WDC WD1200JD
WDC WD1200JD
WDC WD1200JD
Maxtor 6Y080M0
ST3160023AS
Capacity Write Cache Status
159 GB Enabled
119 GB Enabled
119 GB Enabled
119 GB Enabled
81 GB Disabled
159 GB Enabled
138
Assigned In LD 1
Error
Assigned In LD 1
Assigned In LD 1
Free
Dedicated for LD 1