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Chapter 5 Host Side and Drive Side Parameter
5.1 HOST-SIDE PARAMETERS ......................................................................... 5-1
5.1.1 Maximum Concurrent Host LUN Connection (“Nexus” in SCSI)........... 5-2
5.1.2 Number of Tags Reserved for Each Host-LUN Connection.................. 5-3
5.1.3 Maximum Queued I/O Count................................................................. 5-3
5.1.4 LUNs per Host ID................................................................................... 5-4
5.1.5 LUN Applicability.................................................................................... 5-5
5.1.6 Peripheral Device Type ......................................................................... 5-5
5.1.7 In-band (SCSI or Fibre) ......................................................................... 5-5
5.1.8 Peripheral Device Type Parameters for Various Operating Systems ... 5-6
5.1.9 Cylinder/Head/Sector Mapping.............................................................. 5-8
5.2 DRIVE-SIDE PARAMETERS: .................................................................... 5-10
5.2.1 Disk Access Delay Time ...................................................................... 5-11
5.2.2 Drive I/O Timeout................................................................................. 5-11
5.2.3 Maximum Tag Count: Tag Command Queuing (TCQ) and Native
Command Queuing (NCQ) Support ................................................... 5-12
5.2.4 Drive Spindown Idle Delay Period ....................................................... 5-14
5.2.5 Drive Delayed Write............................................................................. 5-14
Chapter 6 Enclosure Management
6.1 ENCLOSURE MONITORING........................................................................ 6-1
6.1.1 Enclosure Devices ................................................................................. 6-1
6.1.2 Auto Shutdown: Elevated Temperature................................................. 6-3
6.1.3 RAID Controller Self-monitoring ........................................................... 6-4
6.2 UPS SUPPORT ............................................................................................. 6-7
6.3 SAF-TE and SES Enclosure Monitoring .................................................... 6-7
6.3.1 Enclosure Devices Status: View Peripheral Device Status
Chapter 7 Data Integrity
7.1 FAILED DRIVE DETECTION ....................................................................... 7-2
7.1.1 Periodic Drive Check Time .................................................................... 7-2
7.1.2 Periodic Auto-Detect Failure Drive Swap Check Time......................... 7-3
7.1.3 Auto-Assign Global Spare Drive............................................................ 7-4
7.2 SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE ........................................................................ 7-5
7.2.1 Task Scheduler...................................................................................... 7-5
Creating a New Schedule..................................................................... 7-6
Adding or Deleting a Schedule ............................................................. 7-6
7.2.2 Task Scheduler Options ........................................................................ 7-6
Execute on Controller Initialization ....................................................... 7-7
Start Time and Date.............................................................................. 7-7
Execution Period................................................................................... 7-7
Media Scan Mode................................................................................. 7-8
Media Scan Priority............................................................................... 7-8
Select Logical Drives ............................................................................ 7-9