Viewing Physical Drive Information; Viewing Physical Drive Statistics; Making Physical Drive Settings - Promise Technology Network Device EX4650 User Manual

SuperTrak EX Series User Manual

Viewing Physical Drive Information

To view physical drive information:
1. Click the Subsystem
2. Click the Enclosures
3. Click the Enclosure
4. Click the Physical Drives
5. Click a Physical Drive
Useful information provided here includes:
• Operational Status – OK is normal. Can also show Rebuilding, Forced
Online, Forced Offline, Transition Running, PDM Running, Media Patrol
Running, Stale, PFA, Offline or Dead.
• Configuration Status – The array to which the drive is assigned or its spare
designation, including Unconfigured, Stale, PFA, Global Spare, Dedicated
Spare, Revertible Global Spare, Revertible Dedicated Spare.
Adjustable Items
• Write Cache – Enabled or disabled as chosen on the Physical Drives
Settings tab.
• Read Look Ahead (Cache) – Enabled or disabled as chosen on the
Physical Drives Settings tab.
• Command Queuing – SATA only. Enabled or disabled.
See "Making Global Physical Drive Settings" on page 147.

Viewing Physical Drive Statistics

To view physical drive statistics:
1. Click the Subsystem
2. Click the Enclosures
3. Click the Enclosure
4. Click the Physical Drives
5. Click a Physical Drive
6. From the dropdown menu on the Information tab, choose Statistics.

Making Physical Drive Settings

The only individual physical drive setting is an alias. An alias is optional. To set
an alias for a physical drive:
1. Click the Subsystem
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