Hdd Smart Status Polling; Controller Fan Detection - Areca ARC-1110 User Manual

3.7.5.10 HDD SMART Status Polling

An external RAID enclosure has the hardware monitor in the
dedicated backplane that can report HDD temperature status
to the controller. However, PCI cards do not use backplanes if
the drives are internal to the main server chassis. The type of
enclosure cannot report the HDD temperature to the controller.
For this reason, HDD SMART Status Polling was added to enable
scanning of the HDD temperature function in the version 1.36
date: 2005-05-19 (and later). It is necessary to enable "HDD
SMART Status Polling" function before SMART information is
accessible. This function is disabled by default.
The following screen shot shows how to change the BIOS setting
to enable the Polling function.
Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System
Main Menu
Quick Volume/Raid Setup
Raid Set Function
Volume Set Function
Physical Drives
Raid System Function
Raid System Function
Ethernet Configuration
View System Events
Clear Event Buffer
Hardware Monitor
System information
ArrowKey Or AZ:Move Cursor, Enter: Select, ESC: Escape, L:Line Draw, X: Redraw

3.7.5.11 Controller Fan Detection

Included in the product box is a field replaceable passive
heatsink to be used only if there is enough airflow to adequately
cool the passive heat sink.
The "Controller Fan Detection" function is available in the
version 1.36 date: 2005-05-19 and later for preventing the
Buzzer warning. When using the passive heatsink, disable the
"Controller Fan Detection" function through this BIOS setting.
The following screen shot shows how to change the BIOS setting
to disable the beeper function. (This function is not available
in the Web Browser setting.)
BIOS CONFIGURATION
Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller
Raid System Function
Mute The Alert Beeper
Alert Beeper Setting
Change Password
JBOD/RAID Function
HDD SMART Status Polling
Background Task Priority
Maximum SATA Mode
HDD Read Ahead Cache
Stagger Power on
HDD SMART Status Polling
HDD SMART Status Polling
Controller Fan Detection
Disk Write Cache Mode
Capacity Truncation
Disabled
Enabled
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