Installation guide

Setting and Modifying Controller Options
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at its fastest. Lowering the number devotes more resources to I/Os and
consequently slows the Rebuild or Expand Array process.
• Change any of the following Startup Parameters:
• Spin-up. Change if you do not want automatic drive spin-up. Other
choices are to spin up at power on, or to wait for a command and
then do an automatic drive spin-up.
• Devices Between Spins. Number of devices to spin up at one time.
A low number lessens the likelihood of a power drain.
• Initial Delay. Number of seconds to wait before spinning up the first
disk set.
• Sequential Delay. Number of seconds between consecutive device
spin-up cycles.
• Change any of the following SCSI Parameters (note that Transfer
Speed is not changeable):
• Channel selects the channel to be viewed for the current data.
• Whether the channel will negotiate 8-bit or 16-bit transfers
• Maximum data transfer rate of the disk side channels. Speeds are
Asynchronous, 5 MHz, 8 MHz, 10 MHz, 20 MHz, and 40 MHz
(LVD only).
☛ Note
SCSI Parameters are disabled for Fibre back-end
products such as the DAC960FF.
☛ Note
Clustering Parameters are not used on External RAID
Controllers.