User`s guide

8
Maintaining Physical Devices
In this chapter...
Viewing Component Properties ............................................................................................ 88
Blinking a Component........................................................................................................... 88
Working with Failed or Failing Disk Drives.......................................................................... 89
Initializing and Erasing Disk Drives...................................................................................... 89
Working with Solid State Drives............................................................................................ 91
Working with Controllers...................................................................................................... 92
Testing and Silencing System and Enclosure Alarms ........................................................... 95
Updating the Controller BIOS and Firmware ...................................................................... 98
Updating the Disk Drive Firmware ....................................................................................... 99
This chapter describes how to manage the controllers, disk drives, solid state drives, and
enclosures in your storage space.