Viewing Information About A Phy - 3Ware 9550SXU-12 User Manual

Viewing Information About a Phy

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If JBOD disks are not exported to the operating system, they will appear as
available drives in 3DM, and can be configured as single disks or spares, and
included in other RAID configurations. If you change the policy to allow
JBOD disks to be exported to the operating system, they will appear as units
in 3DM if those drives were previously used as JBODs on another controller.
AMCC recommends that new drives be configured as Singles and not JBODs.
To enable or disable the export of unconfigured disks
1 At the main 3BM screen,
2 On the
Policy Control
Enter to display the choices, use the
or (to disable) and press
No
3 to the button and press
Tab OK
You will notice a short delay as 3BM makes the policy changes.
Note:
If you enable the Export JBOD Disks option, the controller recognizes and
displays as JBODs any drives that were previously connected to 3ware 7000/8000-
series controllers as JBODs. Drives that were previously connected to a 9000-
series controller and configured will not be seen as JBODs.
The 3ware 9690SA RAID controller has 8 phy transceivers (phys) that
receive and transmit the serial data stream between the controller and drives
and other devices in the SAS domain.
Phys are associated with the SAS ports on the controller. Multiple phys can be
associated with one SAS port, which is then called a "wide port." In the
9690SA, there are two wide ports and each wide port has 4 phys.
You can check the phy properties on the Controller Phy Summary page.
To see information for a phy in 3DM
1 Select the controller for which you wish to view phy information from the
drop-down list on the menu bar.
2 If you have a direct-attached drive you can access the Controller Phy
Summary page from the
clicking the phy ID for the drive. Otherwise, navigate to the
> Controller Settings
3 Under
Other Controller Settings
Controller Phys .
Viewing Information About a Phy
Tab to Policy and press Enter.
screen, to
Tab Export Unconfigured Disks
arrow keys
again to choose it.
Enter
.
Enter
Information > Drive Information
page.
click the # link for
, press
to select Yes (to enable),
page by
Management
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