Using Physical Devices View - Adaptec Storage Manager User Manual

When you select a component in the Enterprise View, the disk drives
and logical drives ("devices") associated with it appear in the Physical
and Logical Devices Views, as shown below.
By selecting Controller 1
in the Enterprise View...
You can perform most tasks by selecting a controller in the Enterprise
view and working with its associated devices in the Physical and Logical
Devices Views.

Using Physical Devices View

When you select a controller in the Enterprise View, information about
the physical disk drives connected to that controller appear in the
Physical Devices View.
Controller 2 is connected to...
Disk drives designated as hot spares have plus signs (+) beside them:
A blue plus sign (shown at right) means that the spare is
protecting at least one logical drive.
A hot spare with a yellow plus sign (shown at right) may not
be large enough to protect the logical drive it's assigned to, or
may not be assigned to a logical drive.
See Working with Hot Spares on page 90
Step 3: Exploring Adaptec Storage Manager
...the disk drives connected to Controller 1 and
the logical drives created with those disk
drives appear in the Physical and Logical
Devices Views.
...eight disk drives.
for more information.
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