Managing disk drives and enclosures, Managing disk drives, Managing disk drives 8-1 – Chaparral K5312/K7313 User Manual

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Managing Disk Drives and

Enclosures

The Disk Array Administrator software lets you control a variety of functions related
to disk drives and SAF-TE Environmental Processor (SEP) enclosures connected to
your controller.

For drives, you can:

– Display drive information (see page 8-2)

– Clear metadata from a drive (see page 8-10)

– Enable/disable write-back cache and display cache status (see page 8-5)

– Enable/disable changes to SMART (see page 8-8)

– Blink a drive LED (see page 8-9)

– Take down a drive (see page 8-10)

– Test a drive (see page 8-11)

For SEP enclosures, you can:

– Change the SEP LUN (see page 8-12)

– Change additional SEP settings (see page 8-14)

Managing Disk Drives

The Disk Array Administrator software lets you control a variety of functions related
to disk drives. You should also refer to your disk drive or enclosure documentation for
information about related functions.

This manual is related to the following products:

G5312/G7313