Users Guide

There are certain conditions under which the Patrol Read task cannot be run.

To start or stop the Patrol Read Task:

Click Start Patrol Read or Stop Patrol Read.

NOTE: On PERC 9 family of hardware controllers, the Stop Patrol Read task displays: Patrol Read

Aborted. On controllers before PERC 9, the Stop Patrol Read task displays: Patrol Read Stopped.

To exit without starting or stopping the Patrol Read, click Go Back to Previous Page.

Related Concepts

Setting The Patrol Read Mode

Locate Start Stop Patrol Read In Storage Management

1. In the Server Administrator window, under the system tree, expand Storage to display the controller

objects.

2. Select a controller object.

3. Click Information/Configuration on the controller Properties page.

4. Select Start Patrol Read or Stop Patrol Read from the Available Tasks.

5. Click Execute.

You can also locate this task from the Change Controller Properties drop-down menu.

Related Concepts

Changing The Controller Properties

NOTE: This task is not supported on PERC hardware controllers running in HBA mode.

Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.

The Change Controller Properties task provides you the option to change multiple controller properties

simultaneously. This task is available only on SAS controllers with firmware version 6.1 and later.

You can change any or all of the following properties using the Change Controller Properties task:

• Rebuild Rate

• BGI Rate

• Check Consistency Rate

• Reconstruct Rate

• Abort check consistency on error

• Revertible Hot Spare

• Load Balance

• Auto replace member on predictive failure

• Redundant path view

• Persistent hot spare