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Physical drive management – Promise Technology VTrak 15110 User Manual

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Physical Drive Management

The term Physical Drive refers to a Hard Disk Drive, as compared to a Logical
Drive
that is made up of one or more physical or disk drives. This manual uses
the terms physical drive and disk drive interchangeably.

From the Main Menu, press 2 and Enter to access Physical Drive Management.

**********Physical Drive (PD) Assignment**********
ID Name

Capacity

Write Cache Status

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1 ST3160023AS

159 GB

Enabled

Assigned(LD 1)

2 WDC WD1200JD

119 GB

Enabled

Error

3 WDC WD1200JD

119 GB

Enabled

Assigned(LD 1)

4 WDC WD1200JD

119 GB

Enabled

Assigned(LD 1)

5 Maxtor 6Y080M0

81 GB

Disabled

Free

7 ST3160023AS

159 GB

Enabled

Dedicated(LD 1)

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Physical Drive Management
1. View Parameters
2. Enable/Disable Write Cache
3. Wipe Out Boot Sector
4. Wipe Out Reserved Sector
5. Blink Led
6. Diagnostics
7. IO Statistics
R. Return to Previous Menu

Please enter your menu choice>

The physical drive assignment lists all disk drives by their placement in the VTrak
chassis, from left to right, 1 to 15, along with make, model, capacity, write cache
status and assignment status.

Status is reported for each disk drive as follows:

Free – Not assigned to any logical drive

Assigned(LD 1) – Assigned to logical drive 1

Dedicated(LD 1) – Assigned as a dedicated hot spare for logical drive 1

Error – This drive is present but offline. You cannot use this drive

No ID number – There is no drive in this channel or VTrak does not
recognize the drive

To create a logical drive, see page 165.

To specify a hot spare drive, see page 168.