Enabling And Disabling Smart Changes; Blinking A Disk Drive Led - Adaptec DuraStor 7220SS User Manual

Enabling and Disabling SMART Changes

You can enable or disable the ability to change the Self-Monitoring
Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) settings for all disk
drives connected to the controller. The setting options are:
Enable (default)
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Disable
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Don't Modify—Use if you do not want the controller to change
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any disk drive's SMART settings.
On most disk drives, SMART is disabled by default by the
manufacturer. You may want to enable it if you want disk drives to
be able to recover from errors on their own.
To enable or disable SMART changes:
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From the System Menu, select Configuration Menu and press
Enter.
The Configuration menu appears.
2
Select Disk Configuration and press Enter.
The Disk Configuration menu appears.
3
Select SMART and press Enter.
The SMART menu appears. The current setting is marked with
an * next to it.
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Select the option you want and press Enter.
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Reboot or rescan to have your changes take effect.
See Rebooting the Controller on page 5-2
Channels on page

Blinking a Disk Drive LED

You can blink the LED of a specific disk drive. The drive continues
blinking its LED until you do one of the following:
Press Esc before Adaptec Disk Array Administrator times out.
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Repeat the blink LED command, which toggles the Blink LED
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command off.
5-21.
Managing Disk Drives and Enclosures
or Rescanning All
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