Keyboard Commands; Scsi Parameter / Initialize; Initialize Disk - Intel SRCU31A - Server RAID U3-1A Controller User Manual

Keyboard Commands

With Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 Fibre Channel RAID Controllers, <F4> delivers extended
information on Fibre Channel drives (World Wide Name, firmware-level, and the Link-status of
the drive).
By pressing <F5> the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 periodically turns the LED (if available) of
the corresponding drive on and off. This helps to physically identify a specific drive in an array of
many drives.
By pressing <F8> you can repair the configuration data of a physical drive. If the Intel RAID
Controller SRCU31 should ever display during the boot sequence a message like "Detected
Primary Configuration Data error, using Secondary," you can try to repair the data by
pressing <F8>.
If you press <Enter> on a specific drive, StorCon opens the Configure Disk menu. Here, all
relevant adjustments and modifications concerning the physical drives can be carried out.
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NOTE
If you create new host drives with the Express Setup function, the StorCon and the Intel RAID
Controller SRCU31 will automatically adjust all parameters to their respective best values. The
transfer rate per drive depends on circumstances like cables, terminators, etc. For example, if a
certain configuration does not allow 160 MB/sec, the drive is automatically "throttled" down to the
next trouble-free transfer rate. See Figure 42.

SCSI Parameter / Initialize

When a SCSI hard disk drive is initialized the first time by the RAID controller, its SCSI
parameters may or may not be set automatically set to their optimal settings. The following section
describes manual configuration of these settings. For certain RAID controllers and/or
situations, certain parameters described in this section may not be configurable.
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Figure 42. Initialize Disk
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