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Page 521: Ctivity, Ettings

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From the Main Menu, highlight

Background Activities

and press

Enter

.

Highlight

Background Activity Settings

and press

Enter

.

Highlight following and press the spacebar to toggle between

Enabled

and

Disabled

.

Media Patrol

– Checks the magnetic media on physical drives

Auto Rebuild

– When enabled and no spare drive is available, the disk array begins to rebuild as soon as you

replace the failed physical drive with an unconfigured physical drive of equal or greater size

Highlight following and press the spacebar to toggle through Low, Medium, and High rates:

Rebuild

– Rebuilds data to a replacement physical drive in a disk array

Migration

– Change RAID level or add physical drives to disk arrays

PDM

– Migrates data from a suspect physical drive to a replacement drive in a disk array

Transition

– Returns a revertible spare drive to spare status

Synchronization

– Checks the data integrity on disk arrays

Initialization

– Full initialization sets all data bits in the logical drive to a specified pattern, such as all zeros

Redundancy Check

– Checks, reports and can correct data inconsistencies in logical drives

The rates are defined as follows:

Low

– Fewer resources to activity, more to data read/write.

Medium

– Balance of resources to activity and data read/write.

High

– More resources to activity, fewer to data read/write.

Highlight the following PDM trigger settings and press the backspace key to erase the current value:

BBM Threshold

– 1 to 2048 reassigned blocks

Media Patrol Threshold

– 1 to 2048 error blocks