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Managing disk drives and enclosures, Managing disk drives, Displaying drive information – StorCase Technology FC-to-SCSI Single & Dual RAID User Manual

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FC-SCSI Dual RAID Module User's Guide - Rev. A01

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Managing Disk Drives and Enclosures

The Disk Array Administrator Utility allows the user to control a variety of functions related

to disk drives and the SAF-TE Board (if any) connected to the controller.

For drives:

• Display drive information
• Clear metadata
• Enable/disable write-back cache
• Display disk cache status
• Enable/disable changes to SMART
• Blink a drive LED
• Take down a drive
• Test a drive

For SAF-TE Board:

• Change the SAF-TE Board LUN
• Change additional SAF-TE Board LUNs

Managing Disk Drives

The Disk Array Administrator Utility allows the user to control a variety of functions related

to disk drives. The user should also refer to the disk drive documentation for further information.

Displaying Drive Information

The user can display two (2) types of information about the disk drives:

• A list of all drives connected to the controller.
• The status of all drives in an array.