Technical information

Monitoring and Maintenance Activities
Manual No. 775029 4-3
PHYSICAL DEVICE TASKS:
• View properties of the selected physical device, such as vendor, model,
firmware version, capacity, and status.
• Optionally change Read and Write Cache settings.
• View either the primary drive defect list, or a list of “grown” defects
which may have emerged more recently. This information can help you
anticipate a drive that may eventually need replacement.
• View a count of parity errors, soft errors, hard errors, and
miscellaneous errors, then reset the counts to 0.
• Assign an unconfigured drive as a spare, or return a current spare drive
to unconfigured status.
• Physically locate (with a blinking LED) the selected physical device.
• Rebuild redundancy data on the selected physical drive.
• Perform a low-level format on the selected physical drive. Note that all
existing data on the drive will be lost.
• Change the STATUS of the selected physical drive as follows:
• UNCONFIGURED <=> SPARE
• ONLINE <=> OFFLINE.
• View and modify physical device SCSI properties.