Using The Hardware Functions; Identifying The Allocation Of Host Adapter Drives - Adaptec AHA-3980 User Manual

Creating and Managing Arrays

Using the Hardware Functions

The Hardware Functions option provides tools for
Identifying the array that uses a specific drive
Identifying the location of a selected drive by blinking the light
on the front panel of the drive
Suspending host adapter activity while you replace drives in
an array

Identifying the Allocation of Host Adapter Drives

You can quickly identify where each host adapter drive is used by
selecting the Display Host Adapter Drives option. This option lets
you display for every drive the following information:
The array that contains the drive
The ordinal number of the drive in the array
To display the information, follow these steps:
1
If the system has only one array, skip to step 2. Otherwise,
from the System menu select any array. The Main menu
appears.
2
From the Main menu, select Hardware Functions.
3
Select Display Host Adapter Drives. A screen similar to that in
Figure 6-2 appears.
4
In the menu at the left of the screen, press the Tab key to high-
light the host adapter channel whose drives you want to dis-
play. The drives for that channel appear to the right, in the
SCSI IDs on Channel menu.
5
Press the and keys to highlight the drive names. As you
highlight each drive name, the array information for that drive
appears in the box at the right of the screen.
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Creating and Managing Arrays
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