Intergraph InterRAID-8e Hardware User's Manual page 8

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Properties............................................................................................................104
Hide/Display Toolbox..........................................................................................104
Performance Monitor On/Off ..............................................................................104
Object Identification On/Off................................................................................105
Enable/Disable Sound .........................................................................................105
Enable/Disable Alarm Control ............................................................................105
Exit .....................................................................................................................105
Physical Drv Menu ...........................................................................................................106
Logical Drv Menu.............................................................................................................107
Create .................................................................................................................107
Initialize..............................................................................................................108
Check Parity........................................................................................................108
Properties............................................................................................................109
Window............................................................................................................................109
Help..................................................................................................................................109
8 Configuring the Disk Array for Performance.............................................................111
RAID Technology.............................................................................................................111
Striped RAID Performance ...............................................................................................111
Mirrored RAID Performance ............................................................................................112
Other Performance Options...............................................................................................112
SCSI-2 Command Tagging .................................................................................112
Write-Back Policy...............................................................................................113
Read Ahead Policy..............................................................................................113
Database Applications.......................................................................................................113
RAID Mode Performance and Data Integrity Differences..................................................114
9 Troubleshooting............................................................................................................115
InterRAID-8e LEDs..........................................................................................................116
Power On LED....................................................................................................116
Channel Mode LED ............................................................................................116
Power Supply LED..............................................................................................116
Fan LED .............................................................................................................117
Disk Activity LEDs.............................................................................................117
Drive Status LEDs...............................................................................................117
Drive Fault LEDs ................................................................................................118
Power-On Self Test...........................................................................................................118
Microprocessor Failures ......................................................................................118
RAM Checksum Failure......................................................................................119
SCSI Bus Access Failure.....................................................................................119
Hardware and Software Failures .......................................................................................119
InterRAID-8e Power Supply Failures ..................................................................120
Windows NT Server Failure ................................................................................120
Formatting RAID Disk Drives.............................................................................121
Creating a RAID Disk Drive Stripe Set ...............................................................121