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VTrak E-Class Product Manual Managing Physical Drives Physical Drive Management includes the following functions: • Making Global Physical Drive Settings (page 162) • Setting an Alias (page 163) • Viewing Advanced Information (page 163) • Viewing Physical Drive Statistics (page 163) • Clearing Stale and PFA Conditions (page 163) • Forcing a Physical Drive Offline or Online (page 164) • Locating a Physical Drive (page 164) Making Global Physical Drive Settings All physical drive settings are made globally, except for setting an alias, which applies to individual drives. To make global physical drive settings: 1. From the Main Menu, highlight Physical Drive Management and press Enter. 2. Highlight Global Physical Drives Settings and press Enter. 3. Change the following settings as required. For SATA drives: • Highlight Write Cache and press the spacebar to toggle between Enabled and Disabled. • Highlight Read Look Ahead Cache and press the spacebar to toggle between Enabled and Disabled. • Highlight CmdQueuing and press the spacebar to toggle between Enabled and Disabled. • Highlight DMA Mode and press the spacebar to toggle through UDMA 0–5 and MDMA 0–2. For SAS drives: • Highlight Write Cache and press the spacebar to toggle between Enabled and Disabled. • Highlight Read Look Ahead Cache and press the spacebar to toggle between Enabled and Disabled. • Highlight CmdQueuing and press the spacebar to toggle between Enabled and Disabled. • Highlight Read Cache and press the spacebar to toggle between Enabled and Disabled. 4. Press Ctrl-A to save your settings. 162
Setting an Alias 163 Chapter 5: Management with the CLU 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 32 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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Using WebPAM PROe over the Internet
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