User Guide

Physical Device and Logical Drive Monitoring 5-7

• Whether the following parameters are set to Yes or No: Sync, Soft

Reset, Command Queuing

• ANSI Version supported

• Back-end transfer speed and bus width (device state)

5.4.1.2 Device Information: Disk Drive

• The vendor or source of the drive

• The drive’s product identification (such as ATLASIV9WLS)

• The revision level of the firmware in the drive

• The back-end bus width (in bits)

• Whether the following parameters are set to Yes or No: Sync, Soft

Reset, Linked, Command Queuing

• ANSI Version supported

• MRIE Mode

• Disk drive serial number

• The physical capacity of the disk device in Mbytes

• The back-end negotiated transfer speed (Mbytes/s) and back-end

negotiated bus width

• The “configured” size of the disk device in Mbytes

• Sector size (usually 512 bytes)

• The current status of the disk (online, offline, etc.) and a failure

indicator if the disk drive has failed (refer to Appendix A for a list of

error codes)

• The number of soft, hard, parity, and miscellaneous errors registered.

Soft errors and parity errors are not available for MegaRAID

controllers.

In the disk drive Device Information dialog box...

Click the Reset Errors button to return all error tallies to 0.

If the disk drive’s status is Rebuild, the Rebuild button may be available

so that you can initiate a physical device rebuild.

If the physical device is unconfigured, the Make Ready button may be

available to make this device disk available for configuration. You will then