View Events; View Hard Disk Drive Info; The Retries Counter; Controller Events - Intel SRCU31A - Server RAID U3-1A Controller User Manual

View Events

Use "View Events" to display Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 events. Events can also be recorded
and saved into a log file. This menu option gives the administrator the ability to analyze and
supervise array drives. See Figure 19.

View Hard Disk Drive Info

View Hard Disk Drive Info menu shows information for hard disk drives. The hard disk drive
information (shown in Figure 20) includes SCSI Channel, SCSI ID, Vendor, Product Type,
Retries/Reassigns, Grown Defects, and Last Status.

The Retries Counter

The Retries counter records the number of retries to a hard disk drive (the counter is incremented
by one unit whenever the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 retries to access a hard disk drive. If the
counter continues to increase, it is likely that the cable is not adequate for the selected data transfer
rate (cable is too long, of poor quality or connectors are of poor quality) or that the SCSI bus is not
properly terminated (too many terminators on the cable or a missing terminator). In very few cases
is the hard disk drive defective. The retries counter also increments when the SCSI parameters of a
hard disk drive are changed.
Storage Console
Figure 19. Controller Events
Figure 20. Hard Disk Drive Information
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