Physical Drive Menu - HP P3410A - NetRAID 1M RAID Controller User Manual

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View Log: Displays the contents of the View Log File, which records
adapter activities and conditions such as battery backup charge, logical
drive properties, and changes to configurations along with the date and
time changes are made.
Alarm Control: Changes the onboard tone generator settings as described
below. (This option is not available with the integrated HP NetRAID
controller.)
Enable/Disable Alarm: Enables or disables the onboard tone
generator. The default setting is Enabled.
Silence Alarm: Stops the alarm when it goes off. To silence a
sounding alarm, choose Alarm Control and Silence Alarm.
For complete information, see Chapter 8, "Alarm Control and Audible
Warnings."

Physical Drive Menu

The Physical Drive menu options are described below.
Rebuild: Rebuilds one or more failed disk drives. Click Cancel to stop the
rebuild process at any time. The drive returns to its original status before
the rebuild began. A configuration of RAID level 1, 3, 5, 10, 30 or 50 has
built-in redundancy. If a drive in one of these RAID groups fails, the RAID
subsystem continues to work but no additional redundancy is provided.
Another drive failure will take the logical drive offline. Rebuilding the
failed drive replaces and adds it into the RAID system. The rebuild process
can take place while the RAID system is still running, although
performance may be affected.
Format: Low-level formats one or more physical drives. You can format a
drive only if it is in the Fail or Ready state and is not part of any
configuration.
Since most SCSI disk drives are low-level formatted at the factory, this
step is usually not necessary. You must format a disk only if:
The disk drive was not low-level formatted at the factory.
There is an excessive number of media errors detected on the disk
drive.
NOTE You do not need to use the Format option if you simply want to
erase existing information on your hard drives, such as a DOS
partition. That information is erased when you choose Initialize
from the Logical Drive menu to initialize the logical drive(s).
Hewlett-Packard drives are factory-formatted.
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