Starting The Scsiselect Utility; Viewing Array - Dell Precision Workstation 470 User Manual

RAID: Dell Precision Workstation 470 and 670 Computers User's Guide

Starting the SCSISelect Utility

1. Turn on or restart your computer.
During the startup process, pay careful attention to the messages that appear on your screen.
2. When the following message appears on your screen, press <Ctrl><a> (this message appears for only a few seconds):
Press <Ctrl><A> for SCSI Select (TM) Utility!
3. From the device menu that appears, select a channel and press <Enter>.
4. From the Options menu, select Configure/View HostRAID Settings and press <Enter>.
After scanning the device is completed, the Main menu appears. The Main menu displays the following information:
ID — Indicates ID number of hard drive.
Type — Indicates available non-array hard drive, RAID type, or global spare:
Striped (R0)
Mirrored (R1)
Hard Drive
Spare
Vendor — Indicates vendor of hard drive.
Product — Indicates model of hard drive or name of built array.
Size — Indicates size of hard drive.
Status — Indicates available RAID status:
Free — Available drive
Optimal — No defect
Degraded — One drive in a mirrored array is in failed status, and a Rebuild option is available.
Dead — One drive in a RAID 0 array is in failed state or missing.
Building — The drive is a target of an ongoing Rebuild operation.
Verifying — Checking the data integrity of redundant data stored on fault-tolerant arrays.

Viewing Array

To view an array, select the array and press <Enter>. A detailed view of the hard drives appears. From this window you can
see the status of the individual hard drives. The status levels you might see are:
Optimal — No defect.
Building — The drive is a target of an ongoing Rebuild operation.
Verify — Checking the data integrity of redundant data stored on fault-tolerant arrays.
Missing drive information indicates that a member is missing and the array is not optimal
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