ASUS PIKE 1078
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Adapter Properties Menu Options (Cont.)
Option
Description
PDF Interval
This option determines how frequently the controller polls for physical
drives reporting a Predictive Drive Failure (S.M.A.R.T. error). The
default is 300 seconds (5 minutes).
Alarm Control
Select this option to enable, disable, or silence the onboard alarm tone
generator on the controller. The default is [Disabled].
Patrol Read
Rate
Use this option to select the rate for patrol reads for physical drives
connected to the selected adapter. The default is 30 percent. The patrol
read rate is the percentage of system resources dedicated to running a
patrol read. See Section 3.5, “Patrol Read-Related Adapter Properties”
for additional information about patrol read.
Cache Flush
Interval
Use this option to control the interval (in seconds) at which the contents
of the onboard data cache are flushed. The default is 4 seconds.
Spinup Drive
Count
Use this option to control the number of drives that spin up
simultaneously. The default is 2 drives.
Spinup Delay
Use this option to control the interval (in seconds) between spinup of
physical disks connected to this controller. The delay prevents a drain
on the system’s power supply that would occur if all disks spun up at
the same time. The default is 12 seconds.
StopOnError
Enable this option if you want the boot process to stop when the
controller BIOS encounters an error during boot-up. The default is
[Disabled].
Additional Adapter Properties Menu Options
(For WebBIOS Version 1.1-33d-Rel)
Option
Description
Stop CC On
Error
Use this option to control if consistency check will stop when error
found. The default is No.
Schedule CC
“Supported” will be displayed if the controller supports consistency
check schedule. Click the link to set consistency check schedule.
Maintain PD
Fail History
Use this option to control if controller will maintain physical disk fail
history.
If you make changes to the options on this screen, click
Submit
to register them. If
you change your mind, click
Reset
to return the options to their default values.
