Physical Drives; Physical Drive View; Media Patrol Schedule - Promise Technology FastTrak TX2200 User Manual

FastTrak TX2200, TX2300 User Manual

Physical Drives

• Physical Drive View (below)
• Media Patrol Schedule (page 60)
• Physical Drive Information
(page 62)
• Physical Drive Settings (page 63)

Physical Drive View

To access Physical Drive View, click on the Physical Drive View
View. From this window, you can click on the links to access information and
functions of individual physical drives and use the Split and Merge feature.

Media Patrol Schedule

The Physical Drive View–Media Patrol tab allows you to start Media Patrol on all
physical (disk) drives. You can also run Media Patrol on individual physical
drives, see page 63.
Media Patrol is a routine maintenance procedure that checks the magnetic media
on each physical drive, sector by sector. Media Patrol checks physical drives
assigned to logical drives, spare drives and currently unassigned physical drives
that were once part of a logical drive or a spare. Media Patrol does not check new
physical drives that have never been configured nor physical drives assigned as
JBOD.
Unlike Synchronization and Redundancy Check, Media Patrol is concerned with
the condition of the media itself, not the data recorded on the media. If Media
• Physical Drive Media Patrol
(page 63)
• Physical Drive Bad Sector Log
(page 65)
• Locate a Physical Drive (page 66)
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