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

Chapter 6
Managing Disk Drives &
Enclosures
SAM lets you control a variety of functions related to devices and enclosure management processor
(EMP) enclosures connected to your X24 Subsystem.
• For devices, you can:
– Display device information (see
– Clear metadata from a disk drive (see
– Enable or disable write-back cache (see
– Display disk cache status (see
– Enable or disable changes to SMART (see
– Blink a drive LED (see
– Take down a disk drive (see
– Test a disk drive (see
• For EMP enclosures, you can:
– Change the EMP LUN (see
– Change additional EMP settings (see

6.1 Managing Disk Drives

SAM 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.

6.1.1 Displaying Disk Drive Information

You can display two types of information about disk drives:
• A list of all drives connected to the X24 Subsystem
• The status of all disk drives in an array
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