Installation guide

Physical Device and Logical Drive Monitoring
5-16 GAM Client v3.00 and WSAM User’s Manual
• Whether the following parameters are set to Yes or No: Synch, Soft
Reset, Linked, Command Queuing
• ANSI Version supported
• Disk drive serial number
• The physical capacity of the disk device in MB
• The back-end negotiated transfer speed (MB/sec) and back-end
negotiated bus width
• The “configured” size of the disk device in MB
• Sector size (usually 512 bytes)
• The current status of the disk (online, offline, etc.) and a failure
indicator if the disk drive has failed (refer to Appendix A for a list of
error codes.)
• The number of soft, hard, parity, and miscellaneous errors registered
In the disk drive Device Information dialog box...
• Click the Reset Errors button to return all error tallies to 0.
If the disk drive’s status is Rebuild, the Rebuild button may be available so
that you can initiate a physical device rebuild.
If the physical device is unconfigured, the Make Hot Spare button may be
available to set this device as a hot spare.
Make Online and Make Offline buttons should be used with great caution.
Refer to the online help file, or call Mylex for support on these options.
The Locate button allows you to locate this physical device visually (only for
new Mylex PCI controllers):
1. Click the Locate button.
The LED of the physical device will blink to reveal its location.
Figure 5-15. Locate Device Message. Click OK When Done.
2. Click OK (see Figure 5-15) to end the locate operation and return to
normal status.