Asus PIKE 2208 - Manual (Page 49)

ASUS PIKE 2208 2-35
Viewing Drive Properties
The Physical Drive screen displays the properties of a selected drive and also
enables you to perform operations on the drive.
There are two ways to access the Physical Drive screen:
• On the main menu screen, click on a drive in the right panel under the heading
Physical View.
• On the main menu screen, click on Drives in the left panel to display the
Drives screen. Then click on a drive in the right panel. Click on the Properties
button, and click Go. The properties for the selected drive display.
The below figure shows the Physical Drive screen.
The drive properties are view-only and are self-explanatory. Note that the
properties include the state of the drive. The operations listed at the bottom of the
screen vary depending on the state of the drive. After you select an operation,
click Go to start the operation. If the drive state is Online, the following operations
appear.
• Select Make Drive Offline if you want to force the drive offline.
If you force offline a good drive that is part of a redundant drive group with a hot
spare, the drive will rebuild to the hot spare drive. The drive you forced offline
will go into the Unconfigured Bad state. Access the BIOS utility to set the drive
to the Unconfigured Good state.
• Select Locate to make the LED flash on the drive. This works only if the drive
is installed in a drive enclosure.
• Select Stop Locate to disable the LED flash on the drive.