Making Physical Drive Settings; Running Media Patrol - Promise Technology FastTrak TX4650 User Manual

• Interface – Identifies whether the physical drive is SATA 1 1.5 Gb/s, SATA II
3.0 Gb/s or SAS.
• S.M.A.R.T. Status – SMART, an acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis and
Reporting Technology, is a feature of the physical drive's software. When this
feature is supported, the drive will pass SMART information to the FastTrak
controller when it polls the physical drives.
• Write Cache Status – Indicates whether the physical drive's write cache is
Enabled or Disabled. You can change this status under the Settings tab (see
below).

Making Physical Drive Settings

Physical Drive Settings allows you to enable or disable the Write Cache and
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) on an individual physical drive. The options
displayed are those features the physical drive supports.
To make physical drive settings:
1. Click the Physical Drive View
2. Click the Physical Drive
3. Click the Settings tab in Management View.
4. Click the Write Cache Enable or Disable option.
5. Click the NCQ Enable or Disable option.
6. Click the Submit button.

Running Media Patrol

The Physical Drive–Media Patrol tab allows you to start Media Patrol on an
individual physical (disk) drive. 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.
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