User`s manual

Selecting Notification Options

This section of the Options window allows users to select how they are notified of a system

event. A System Event includes driver-initiated Rebuilds (automatic rebuild using a “hot”

spare standby drive), user-initiated manual Rebuilds or manual Synchronization, and Error-

Handling for these processes.

Enable audible prompt turns on/off the audible alarm of an event (typically a drive

failure, or completion of rebuild or synchronization).

Popup message box turns on/off the appearance of an event message box that would

typically indicate a drive failure, or completion of rebuild or synchronization.

Use log file allows writing operating event logs of the array activity (alerts and status

reports) to a given file name and directory. If a file name is used but the path left

blank, the default directory is the same as that of the FastCheck Utility (typically

C:\Program Files\Promise\FastTrak133-Lite).

Use NT system event log is automatically grayed out under Windows 98/ME/2000.

Under Windows NT4, it permits you to write array logging to NT’s own event log.

1. To view FastCheck events under Windows NT, go to

Start/Programs/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer.

2. In Event Viewer, choose “Log” from the menu bar, and then click “Application”.

Any events generated by FastCheck will appear under the Source column as

“FastCheck”.

On Errors offers four radio buttons for the user to select the procedure they would like

to perform if an Error is detected during automatic/manual Rebuilds or manual

Synchronization. There are three types of errors that can be detected - a data

mismatch between the primary and secondary drives, a physical media error on the

source or target drive, or a total disk failure. The options for handling Errors are as

follows:

Abort: Stops any Synchronization or Rebuild process if an error is encountered.

Fix: In most cases, the system will automatically correct errors. The method of

correction varies depending on the type of error.

Ignore: The system will log the event error and continue the rebuild or

synchronization process. Use this setting if you want to detect the presence of

errors, but do not want to fix these errors yet. The user may then decide what to

do about the error(s) detected.

WARNING: This may result in mismatched drives under RAID 1.