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Changing How Drives are Displayed
By default, the Physical Devices displays a condensed view of the
controller configuration that hides detailed information about the
drives. More information is available by either positioning the
mouse pointer over the device or clicking on the arrowhead to the
left of a row of devices.
The selected display mode button will appear in a lighter shade of
blue than the other two buttons. The default display is the Text
Description View, but in the condensed view used when Adaptec
Storage Manager is loaded, the display is the same in all three
modes.
If you change the display mode by selecting one of the other view
buttons, a yellow arrow flashes to the left of any devices where the
condensed display prevents omits information.
An icon is always the first entry on each device line. The
used to represent a hard disk drive. If a + symbol appears with the
hard disk drive icon
used to represent other devices.
View
is the default display mode and when expanded, will show the
following information about each device:
Capacity of the drive
Drive manufacturer and model number
SCSI drive ID, or Serial ATA port number
When expanded, the Full Size Capacity View button
Relative Size Capacity View button
bar. A drive that is not used as part of any array is shaded blue
surrounded by a dotted line.
displays a full-length bar for each drive, regardless of capacity.
displays a bar for each drive, with the largest capacity drive
full-length and the other drives proportional to the drive capacity,
relative to the largest drive.
Using Adaptec Storage Manager – Browser Edition
, the drive is a hot spare. Different icons are
represent each drive as a
icon is
and the
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