Manual
Chapter 5 Monitoring
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Device Information: Disk Drive
• The vendor or source of the drive
• The drive’s product identification (such as 4.26GB A 80-DC1B)
• The revision level of the firmware in the drive
• The bus width (in bits)
• Indicates, by Yes/No, if the following parameters are set:
◊ Synch
◊ Soft Reset
◊ Linked
◊ Command Queuing
• ANSI Version supported
• The negotiated transfer speed (MB/sec) and negotiated bus width
• The physical capacity of the disk device in MB
• The current status of the disk (online, offline, etc.)
• Sector size (usually 512 bytes)
Device Errors: Disk Drive
• The number of soft, hard, parity, and miscellaneous errors registered
In the disk drive Device Information property sheet:
• Click the Reset Errors button to return all error tallies to 0.
If the disk drive’s status is dead, the Rebuild button may be available to
initiate a physical device rebuild.
If the physical device is un-configured, the Make Hot Spare button may
be available to set this device as a hot spare.
NOTE Use Make Online and Make Offline buttons with great caution.
Refer to the online help file for help on these options.
In any Device Information property sheet:
• Click the Close button to close the property sheet.