Users Guide

Firmware Or Driver Properties..................................................................................................................................47
Controller Health.............................................................................................................................................................. 48
Controller Components............................................................................................................................................. 48
Controllers Properties And Tasks................................................................................................................................... 48
Controller Tasks................................................................................................................................................................52
Creating A Virtual Disk.............................................................................................................................................. 53
Enabling The Controller Alarm..................................................................................................................................53
Disabling The Controller Alarm................................................................................................................................. 53
Turning O The Controller Alarm.............................................................................................................................53
Testing The Controller Alarm....................................................................................................................................53
Setting The Rebuild Rate..........................................................................................................................................53
Resetting The Controller Conguration.................................................................................................................. 54
Exporting The Controller Log File............................................................................................................................ 55
Foreign Conguration Operations............................................................................................................................55
Importing Foreign Congurations.............................................................................................................................57
Importing Or Recovering Foreign Congurations.................................................................................................. 58
Clearing Foreign Conguration.................................................................................................................................59
Physical Disks In Foreign Virtual Disks.....................................................................................................................59
Setting Background Initialization Rate.....................................................................................................................62
Setting The Check Consistency Rate..................................................................................................................... 62
Setting The Reconstruct Rate................................................................................................................................. 63
Setting The Patrol Read Mode.................................................................................................................................63
Starting And Stopping Patrol Read..........................................................................................................................64
Changing The Controller Properties........................................................................................................................65
Managing The Physical Disk Power.........................................................................................................................66
Managing The Preserved Cache..............................................................................................................................68
Encryption Key........................................................................................................................................................... 68
Converting To Non-RAID Disks.................................................................................................................................71
Converting To RAID Capable Disks...........................................................................................................................71
Changing The Controller Mode.................................................................................................................................71
Auto Congure RAID0 Operation.............................................................................................................................72
System Conguration Lock Down Mode...................................................................................................................... 73
Global Tasks Supported When System Conguration Lock Down Mode Is On................................................. 73
Controller Tasks Supported When System Conguration Lock Down Mode Is On........................................... 74
Controller Reports Supported When System Conguration Lock Down Mode Is On.......................................75
Physical Disk Tasks Supported When System Conguration Lock Down Mode Is On..................................... 76
Virtual Disk Tasks Supported When System Conguration Lock Down Mode Is On........................................ 76
Viewing Available Reports ..............................................................................................................................................76
Available Reports........................................................................................................................................................77
Viewing Patrol Read Report......................................................................................................................................77
Viewing Check Consistency Report.........................................................................................................................77
Setting The Redundant Path Conguration............................................................................................................77
Viewing Slot Occupancy Report.............................................................................................................................. 79
Viewing Physical Disk Firmware Version Report.................................................................................................... 79
Physical Disk Firmware Version Report Properties................................................................................................80
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