HP Insight Management Agents - Manual (Page 55)

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• IDE ATA disk drives
• IDE ATA logical drives
IDE controller information
Select a controller entry from the Mass Storage list to display the following information:
• Model—Displays the controller’s model string, used for identification purposes
• Slot—Displays the physical slot number where the controller is installed in the system or N/A if slot number is
not available
• Firmware Version—Displays the firmware version of the controller
IDE ATAPI devices
The information displayed for each IDE ATAPI device entry in the submenu includes condition graphic and device
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, “Device unknown”
displays and the driver software or the Storage Agents might need to be updated. Select any of the devices from the
submenu to display more information about the devices. The following information displays for all devices:
• Device Type—Identifies the type of ATAPI device. The following values are valid:
• Disk—A direct-access device, such as a disk drive.
• Removable Media Disk—A removable media device, such as a floppy disk drive.
• Tape—A sequential-access device, such as a tape drive.
• 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.