F Managing Disk Drives And Enclosures; Managing Disk Drives; Displaying Drive Information - Impediment RS-1600-X24 User Manual

Appendix F

Managing Disk Drives

and Enclosures
Using the Disk Array Administrator, you can control a variety of functions related to disk drives and
enclosure management processor (EMP) enclosures connected to your X24 Subsystem.
• For drives, you can:
– Display drive information (see
– Clear metadata from a drive (see
– Enable/disable write-back cache (see
– Display disk cache status (see
– Enable/disable changes to SMART (see
– Blink a drive LED (see
– Take down a drive (see
– Test a drive (see
• For EMP enclosures, you can:
– Change the EMP LUN (see
– Change additional EMP settings (see
F.1 Managing Disk Drives
The Disk Array Administrator software lets you control a variety of functions related to disk drives. You
should also refer to your disk drive or enclosure documentation for information about related functions.
F.1.1 Displaying Drive Information
You can display three types of information about disk drives:
• A list of all drives connected to the X24 Subsystem
• The status of all drives in an array
• Errors on a specific drive and reset error statistics
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