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• Rebuild Priority—Displays the logical drive rebuild priority of the controller. The following
values are valid:
◦ Low—Indicates the rebuild priority is low.
◦ Medium—Indicates the rebuild priority is medium.
◦ High—Indicates the rebuild priority is high.
◦ Unknown—Indicates that the rebuild priority is not recognized. You may need to upgrade
the Storage Agents.
• Expand Priority—Displays the logical drive expand priority of the controller. The following
values are valid:
◦ Low—Indicates the expand priority is low.
◦ Medium—Indicates the expand priority is medium.
◦ High—Indicates the expand priority is high.
◦ Unknown—Indicates that the expand priority is not recognized. You may need to upgrade
the Storage Agents.
• Number of Ports—Displays the number of usable SCSI ports on the controller. Sometimes port
is also referred to as bus or channel. The number of ports does not indicate the number of
connectors.
• Internal Ports—Displays the number of internal connectors on the controller.
• External Ports—Displays the number of external connectors on the controller.
• RAID Stack Version—Lists the RAID stack version operating the B-series array controller. This
value may change when upgrading or downgrading the operating system device driver.
• Physical Drive Write Cache State—Displays the controller setting for physical drive write cache.
The following values are valid:
◦ Disabled—Indicates the controller will disable write cache on all physical drives.
◦ Enabled—Indicates the controller will enable write cache on all physical drives.
◦ Unknown—Indicates the drive write cache state is not recognized. You may need to
upgrade the Storage Agents.
Array Accelerator Information
Select the accelerator item from the Mass Storage submenu to display the following information:
• Status—Displays the status of the array accelerator. The following values are valid:
Enabled—Cache operations are currently configured and enabled for at least one logical
drive.
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◦ Temporarily Disabled—Cache operations have been temporarily disabled. Check the
Array Accelerator Error Code for the monitored item to determine why the cache operations
have been temporarily disabled.
◦ Permanently Disabled—Cache operations have been permanently disabled. Check the
Array Accelerator Error Code for the monitored item to determine why the cache operations
have been disabled.
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