Users Guide

Firmware Or Driver Properties................................................................................................................................. 44
Controller Health..............................................................................................................................................................45
Controller Components.............................................................................................................................................45
Controllers Properties And Tasks...................................................................................................................................45
Controller Tasks................................................................................................................................................................49
Creating A Virtual Disk.............................................................................................................................................. 50
Enabling The Controller Alarm..................................................................................................................................50
Disabling The Controller Alarm.................................................................................................................................50
Turning O The Controller Alarm.............................................................................................................................50
Testing The Controller Alarm....................................................................................................................................50
Setting The Rebuild Rate..........................................................................................................................................50
Resetting The Controller Conguration................................................................................................................... 51
Exporting The Controller Log File............................................................................................................................ 52
Foreign Conguration Operations............................................................................................................................53
Importing Foreign Congurations............................................................................................................................ 55
Importing Or Recovering Foreign Congurations.................................................................................................. 55
Clearing Foreign Conguration.................................................................................................................................56
Physical Disks In Foreign Virtual Disks.....................................................................................................................57
Setting Background Initialization Rate.....................................................................................................................59
Setting The Check Consistency Rate..................................................................................................................... 60
Setting The Reconstruct Rate................................................................................................................................. 60
Setting The Patrol Read Mode................................................................................................................................. 61
Starting And Stopping Patrol Read..........................................................................................................................62
Changing The Controller Properties........................................................................................................................62
Managing The Physical Disk Power.........................................................................................................................63
Managing The Preserved Cache............................................................................................................................. 65
Encryption Key........................................................................................................................................................... 66
Converting To Non-RAID Disks................................................................................................................................ 68
Converting To RAID Capable Disks..........................................................................................................................68
Changing The Controller Mode................................................................................................................................69
Auto Congure RAID0 Operation.............................................................................................................................70
System Conguration Lock Down Mode...................................................................................................................... 70
Global Tasks Supported When System Conguration Lock Down Mode Is On..................................................71
Controller Tasks Supported When System Conguration Lock Down Mode Is On............................................71
Controller Reports Supported When System Conguration Lock Down Mode Is On....................................... 71
Physical Disk Tasks Supported When System Conguration Lock Down Mode Is On..................................... 72
Virtual Disk Tasks Supported When System Conguration Lock Down Mode Is On........................................ 72
Viewing Available Reports ..............................................................................................................................................73
Available Reports........................................................................................................................................................73
Viewing Patrol Read Report......................................................................................................................................73
Viewing Check Consistency Report........................................................................................................................ 73
Viewing Slot Occupancy Report.............................................................................................................................. 74
Viewing Physical Disk Firmware Version Report.................................................................................................... 74
Physical Disk Firmware Version Report Properties................................................................................................75
8 Support For PERC 9 and PERC 10 Hardware Controllers.............................................................................76
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