Setting An Alias; Viewing Advanced Information; Viewing Physical Drive Statistics; Clearing Stale And Pfa Conditions - Promise Technology 1000f series Product Manual

Setting an Alias

An alias is optional. To set an Alias for a physical drive:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Physical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the physical drive of your choice and press Enter.
3. Type an alias into the Alias field.
Maximum of 31 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between words
and underscore.
4. Press Ctrl-A to save your settings.

Viewing Advanced Information

To view advanced information about the selected physical drive:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Physical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the physical drive of your choice and press Enter.
3. Highlight Advanced Information and press Enter.

Viewing Physical Drive Statistics

To view the statistics for the selected physical drive:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Physical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the physical drive of your choice and press Enter.
3. Highlight Physical Drive Statistics and press Enter.

Clearing Stale and PFA Conditions

The Clear Stale and Clear PFA functions only appear when those conditions exist
on the physical drive. To clear a Stale or PFA condition on a physical drive:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Physical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the physical drive of your choice and press Enter.
3. Highlight Clear Stale or Clear PFA and press Enter.
If a physical drive is still online and shows a PFA error but "Clear PFA" does not
appear, use PDM to copy the data to a new physical drive. Go to Disk Array Info
and Settings.
If a physical drive is offline and shows a PFA error, rebuild the disk array. Go to
Disk Array Info and Settings. After rebuilding, the drive will show Stale. Run Clear
Stale then run Clear PFA.
If the physical drive with a PFA error is a spare, you must delete the drive as a
spare, then Clear PFA will be available.
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