Device Management - NewerTech MAXPower mini-SAS 6G-2e User Manual

Device Management

Mouse over the "Manage" menu item and select "Device" to enter the Device Management screen.
Automatic Device Passthrough
The NewerTech MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G has an automatic
passthrough/legacy feature that will pass any connected drive
to the OS without needing to initialize it via the Web Manager.
The exception to this auto-passthrough feature is when a drive
or drives have been initialized via the Web Manager, for use in a
RAID array or as a hot spare. The drives will appear in the Web
Manager with an "L" over the icon to represent its state as a
passthrough/legacy drive.
Initializing Devices
Initializing a drive writes necessary
RAID configuration information to the
drive to prepare it for inclusion in a
RAID array and/or spare pool.
Drives will be initialized automatically as part of the RAID array
creation process, but it is recommended to initialize a drive before
including it into a spare pool.
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!! IMPORTANT !!
Initializing a drive will
destroy existing data!
Changing Device Settings
Depending on the features of the drives you are using, you can
adjust settings such as Read Ahead, Write Cache, TCQ, and NCQ.
Rescanning for Devices
If a drive is connected to the controller while in the Device
Management screen, click "Rescan Devices" to have the Web
Manager recognize the connected drive.
Unplugging Devices
To properly disconnect a drive from the controller card, click on
the drive to be removed and then click "Unplug" to allow the drive
to be physically disconnected from the controller card.
If a drive is included in a RAID array, the entire RAID array will
need to be unplugged from the Array Management screen before
physically disconnecting the array or drive within the array. See
the "Unplugging an Array" on page 10 for more information.