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HP Netserver L Server series User Manual

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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.