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Ide ata disk drives – HP Insight Management Agents User Manual

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Printer—A printer device.

Processor—An operating device, such as a central processing unit or ProLiant Storage
System.

WORM drive—A write-once, read-many times device.

DVD/CD-ROM—A DVD-ROM or CD-ROM device. It can be a read-only device or a
read-write device.

PD-CD Drive—A combination CD-ROM drive and removable media read-write drive.

Scanner—A scanning device.

Optical—An optical memory or storage device.

Jukebox—A media-changer device, such as a tape or CD library.

Communications Device—A communications device, such as a LAN bridge.

Unknown—The Storage Agents could not determine the device type. You might need to
upgrade your support software or Storage Agents.

Model—Displays the model of the device.

Firmware Revision—Displays the firmware version of the device.

IDE ATA disk drives

The information displayed for each IDE ATA disk drive entry in the submenu includes condition
graphic and disk drive location: Primary or Secondary channel, Master device 0 or Slave device
1. If the Storage Agents cannot determine the channel, then “Channel unknown” displays. If the
device position cannot be determined, then “Device unknown” displays and driver software or the
Storage Agents might need to be updated. Select any of the disk drives from the submenu to display
more information about the disk drives.

The following information is displayed for all disk drives:

Model—Displays the model of the disk drive.

Status—Displays the current status of the disk drive. The following values are valid:

OK—The disk drive is operating normally.

S.M.A.R.T. Error—The S.M.A.R.T. predictive failure monitoring predicts imminent failure
of this disk drive. Schedule replacement before actual failure occurs.

Failed—The disk drive has failed and must be replaced.

Unknown—The Storage Agents cannot determine the status of the disk drive. You might
need to upgrade your driver software or Storage Agents.

S.M.A.R.T. Support—Indicates whether S.M.A.R.T. support is available for this disk drive. The
following values are valid:

Available—This drive supports predictive failure monitoring.

Not Available—This drive does not support predictive failure monitoring.

Unknown—The Storage Agents cannot determine if the drive supports predictive failure
monitoring. You might need to upgrade your driver or Storage Agents.

Serial Number—Displays the serial number of the disk drive.

Firmware Revision—Displays the firmware version of the disk drive.

Capacity—Displays the size of the drive.

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