Viewing Physical Drive Statistics; Making Physical Drive Settings - Promise Technology 1000f series Product Manual

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• Operational Status – OK is normal. Can also show Rebuilding, Forced
Online, Forced Offline, Transition Running, PDM Running, Media Patrol
Running, Stale, PFA, Offline, or Dead.
• Configuration Status – The array to which the drive is assigned or its spare
designation, including Unconfigured, Stale, PFA, Global Spare, Dedicated
Spare, Revertible Global Spare, Revertible Dedicated Spare.
Adjustable Items
• Write Cache
• Read Look Ahead Cache
• Read Cache (SAS drive only)
• Command Queuing
• DMA Mode (SATA drives only)
See "Making Global Physical Drive Settings" on page 145.

Viewing Physical Drive Statistics

To view physical drive statistics:
1. Click the Subsystem
2. Click the Enclosures
3. Click the Enclosure
4. Click the Physical Drives
5. Click a Physical Drive
6. From the dropdown menu on the Information tab, choose Statistics.
Clearing Statistics
To clear statistics, see "Clearing Statistics" on page 130.

Making Physical Drive Settings

An alias is the only setting you can make to an individual physical drive. All other
settings are global. See "Making Global Physical Drive Settings" on page 145.
To make physical drive settings:
1. Click the Subsystem
2. Click the Enclosures
3. Click the Enclosure
4. Click the Physical Drives
5. Click a Physical Drive
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