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Physical Drive

Select Objects—> Physical Drive to select a physical device and to perform
the operations listed in Table 12-5. When you choose this option, the
physical drives in the system are listed. Move the cursor to the desired
device and press to display the options for physical drives.

Physical Drive Menu

Table 12-6 displays the options in the physical drive menu.

Read Policy

Adaptive Readahead

Cache Policy

Direct I/O

Spanning

Off

Ta b l e 1 2 - 6 . P h y s i c a l D r i v e M e n u O p t i o n s

Option

Description

Rebuild

Choose this option to rebuild the selected physical drive.

Format

Choose this option to low-level format the selected physical

drive.

Force Online

Choose this option to change the state of the selected

physical drive to online.

Force Offline

Choose this option to change the state of the selected

physical drive to offline.

Prepare to

Remove

Choose this option before you remove a physical drive from

an array.

Make HotSpare

Choose this option to designate the selected physical drive as

a hot spare.

View Drive

Information

Choose this option to see the manufacturer data for the

selected physical device.

View Rebuild

Progress

Choose this option to see the progress of the rebuild process

for the selected physical drive.

Ta b l e 1 2 - 5 . L o g i c a l D r i v e D e f a u l t S e t t i n g s

Parameter

Setting