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WebPAM User v1.5 - Promise Technology, Inc.

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Chapter 5: Monitor and Manage<br />

• Drive Status – The operational of this disk drive. Functional means normal.<br />

Others include Offline.<br />

• Background Activity – The current background activity affecting this disk<br />

drive. Idle means no activity. Others include Initializing and Rebuilding.<br />

• Capacity – The data capacity of this disk drive in GB.<br />

• Sector – The number of sectors on this disk drive.<br />

• Head – The number of heads on this disk drive.<br />

• Cylinder – The number of cylinders on this disk drive.<br />

• Ultra DMA Mode – The UDMA mode in which this disk drive currently<br />

operates.<br />

• S.M.A.R.T. Status – SMART, an acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis and<br />

Reporting <strong>Technology</strong>, is a feature of the disk drive software. When this<br />

feature is supported, the drive will pass SMART information to the FastTrak<br />

controller when it polls the physical drives.<br />

• Write Cache Status – Indicates whether the disk drive’s write cache is<br />

Enabled or Disabled. You can change this status under the Settings tab (see<br />

below).<br />

Physical Drive Settings<br />

Physical Drive Settings allows you to enable or disable the Write Cache on an<br />

individual physical drive. To access the physical drive setting:<br />

1. Click on the Physical Drive View icon in Tree View.<br />

2. Click on the Physical Drive icon.<br />

3. Click on the Settings tab in Management View.<br />

4. Click the Enable or Disable radio button.<br />

5. Click the Submit button.

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