Formatting And Verifying Disk Drives - Adaptec RAID 2405 Installation And User Manual

Power Management Settings
Note:
When power management is disabled, no related options will be displayed.
Note:
Make sure the operating system driver supports power management.
Note:
Default settings are shown in bold type.
Option
Power Management
Settings
Time Zone
Stay Awake Start
Stay Awake End
Spin Up Limit (Internal)
Spin Up Limit (External)
PHY Settings
Note:
These settings are not available on the Adaptec RAID 31205 or Adaptec RAID 31605
controllers.
Note:
These details are read-only and non-editable.
Option
PHY Rate
CRC Checking When enabled, determines whether the controller verifies the accuracy of data
SAS Address

Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives

You can use the disk utilities to low-level format or verify your disk drives. (New disk drives are
low-level formatted at the factory and do not need to be low-level formatted again.)
Caution:
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a disk drive.
Appendix C: Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Description
When enabled, switches the system to low power state, based on the
specified settings.
The time zone of the place in which the system is located. Time specific
power management settings are implemented based on the set time
zone. By default, it is set to 00:00.
The valid range for the time zone settings is -12:00 to +12:00.
The time from which the system should operate in the full power mode,
irrespective of other power management settings, daily. By default it is
set to 00:00.
The valid range is 00:00 to 23:59.
The time till which the system should operate in the full power mode,
irrespective of other power management settings, daily. By default it is
set to 00:00.
The valid range is 00:00 to 23:59.
The number of internal drives to be spun up at any given moment. By
default it is set to 0. In the default setting, all the internal drives will
spin up.
The number of external drives to be spun up at any given moment. By
default it is set to 0. In the default setting, all the external drives will
spin up.
Description
The data transfer rate between the controller and devices. The default setting is
Auto, which allows the SAS card to adjust the data transfer rate as required.
transfer on the serial bus. Default setting is Yes (enabled). Set to No (disabled)
only if the controller is connected to a device that does not support CRC Checking.
In a situation where you want each phy on a controller to be in a different SAS
domain, this setting specifies a unique world-wide name for each phy. Default
is 0.
Note: This setting is for SAS address conflict resolution only and should otherwise
remain at its default value.
Before you format a disk drive, back up all data. Formatting destroys all data on
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