Managing Physical Drives; Viewing A List Of Physical Drives; Making Global Physical Drive Settings - Promise VTRAK M610i Product Manual

VTrak M610i, M310i, M210i Product Manual

Managing Physical Drives

Physical Drive Management includes the following functions:
• Viewing a List of Physical Drives (page 144)
• Making Global Physical Drive Settings (page 144)
• Setting an Alias (page 145)
• Viewing Advanced Information (page 145)
• Viewing Physical Drive Statistics (page 145)
• Clearing Stale and PFA Conditions (page 145)
• Forcing a Physical Drive Offline or Online (page 146)
• Locating a Physical Drive (page 146)

Viewing a List of Physical Drives

To view a list of physical drives:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Physical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight Global Physical Drives Settings and press Enter.
The list of physical drives appears.

Making Global Physical Drive Settings

All physical drive settings are made globally, except for setting an alias, which
applies to individual drives.
To make global physical drive settings:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Physical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight Global Physical Drives Settings and press Enter.
3. Change the following settings as required:
• Highlight Write Cache and press the spacebar to toggle between
Enabled and Disabled.
• Highlight Read Look Ahead Cache and press the spacebar to toggle
between Enabled and Disabled.
• Highlight CmdQueuing and press the spacebar to toggle between
Enabled and Disabled.
• Highlight DMA Mode and press the spacebar to toggle through UDMA
0–5 and MDMA 0–2.
4. Press Ctrl-A to save your settings.
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