Blinking A Disk Drive; Viewing Disk Drive Properties - Adaptec 2110S User Manual

Adaptec Storage Manager Pro User's Guide
Caution:
This includes terminating a Format task, restarting
your system, or shutting down your system while a
Format task is in progress. Doing so can result in a
damaged disk drive.
Storage Manager Pro formats the disk drive. This can take
anywhere from several minutes to several hours depending on
the manufacturer and size of the disk drive.

Blinking a Disk Drive

You can use the Blink function to blink the activity light of the
selected disk drive. This lets you visually identify a specific drive.
Note:
The Blink function does not work on disk drives
installed in systems running NetWare.
To blink a drive:
1
In the System Browser window, select the drive you want to
blink.
2
Click Blink.
Storage Manager Pro confirms that it will blink the drive for
approximately two minutes. You can stop the blinking by
clicking Unblink at any time.

Viewing Disk Drive Properties

You can view the disk drive properties from the tabs on the Disk
Properties dialog box. The following is a list of possible tabs. What
you see will be determined by your controller.
I Product—Displays manufacturer-specific information about
the drive.
I
SCSI—(SCSI drives only) Displays the SCSI address and
connection information.
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Do not interrupt a Format task in progress.