M Edia P Atrol - Promise Technology Vess A6600 Product Manual

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Media Patrol is a routine maintenance procedure that checks the magnetic media on each disk drive. Media
Patrol checks are enabled by default on all disk arrays and spare drives. Media Patrol is concerned with the
media itself, not the data recorded on the media. If Media Patrol encounters a critical error, it triggers PDM if PDM
is enabled on the disk array.
Media Patrol Settings
Media Patrol is enabled or disabled using the Background Activities menu or you can create a schedule to run
Media Patrol.
• To enable Media Patrol,
on the Background Activities menu tab. Click to check the Enable
Media Patrol option. Notice also that the Auto Rebuild option is here
as well. If you want
soon as a faulty drive is replaced, make sure this option is enabled.
• To begin Media Patrol manually, click on the menu expander to the right of
the Background Activities tab and scroll down and select Start Media Patrol
to see the Start Media Patrol menu. Then click on the Start button.
• To schedule Media Patrol, click on the menu expander to the right of the
Scheduler tab and scroll down and select Add Media Patrol Schedule to
open the schedule menu. Use this menu to add a Media Patrol schedule.
click on the Subsystem in Tree View then click
to automatically begin rebuilding a logical drive as
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