Formatting And Verifying Disk Drives; Locating Disk Drives - Adaptec 5805 Installation And User Manual

Option
Spin Up Limit (Internal)
Spin Up Limit (External)
PHY Settings
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.
To format or verify a disk drive:
Start the ARC utility (see
1
Select the controller you want, then press Enter.
2
Select Disk Utilities.
3
Select the disk drive you want, then press Enter.
4
Select Format Disk or Verify Disk Media.
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Locating Disk Drives

Note:
This feature is only available with disk drives that have an activity LED.
You can use the Identify Drive feature to physically locate a disk drive by blinking the LED.
To locate a disk drive:
Start the ARC utility (see
1
Select the controller you want, then press Enter.
2
Select Disk Utilities.
3
Appendix C: Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Description
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 needed. For
low-port 5-series RAID controllers (5085, 5405), you can set the PHY rate to
1.5Gb/second or 3.0Gb/second (the maximum rate).
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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