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The Device Information window displays the following
information:
Description
Revision
Address
Capacity
Sectors
Bytes/sector
Removable
Transfer
Status
RAID drives display the name and level of the array to which they
belong and the stripe size for the array.
Various buttons are available depending on device type. Hard
drives have Event Log and I/O Stats buttons. Hard drives that are
not members of a RAID have Make Hotspare, Configure, and
Format buttons. Print is always available.
Hard drives that are members of arrays display a Fail Drive button.
If the drive is a hot spare, the Remove Hotspare button replaces the
Make Hotspare button.
The manufacturer and model.
The drive firmware revision.
The logical address of the device.
Storage capacity of the device in MB. For
removable-media devices, capacity is reported for
the currently inserted media.
Total number of sectors on the drive. SCSI devices
may refer to sectors as blocks in some other
reference material.
Sector size (always 512). A SCSI hard drive may
report otherwise; if so, low-level format the drive as
described in
Formatting
Indicates that the drive uses removable media.
Transfer rate.
Current status of the array as reported by the
controller. General status conditions (other than
Optimal) are indicated by flags on the device icon.
The SCSI Capabilities section shows which
supported features are enabled [x] for the device.
For a list of valid statuses, refer to
on page
3-22.
Storage Manager
Drives.
Status Reporting
3-29
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