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Rescan
Clicking rescan will force the drivers to report the array status. For any disk(s) you hot
plug into the device; do not click rescan until all physical drives are detected and
appear under Logical Device Information.
The following properties are part of the
Physical Devices Information
box under the
physical tab.
•
Model
–
Model number of the physical drive
•
Capacity
–
Total capacity of the physical drive
•
Revision
–
HDD device firmware revision number
•
Read Ahead*
- (Enable/Disable) Disk read ahead.
•
Location
–
Device location (example: 1/2 states controller 1, channel 2)
•
Write Cache*
–
(Enable/Disable) the disk write cache
•
Max Free
–
space on the disk that is not configured in an array
•
Status
–
(Normal, disabled, critical) status of the disk
•
Serial Number
–
serial number of the physical disk
•
Unplug
–
Safely ejects the selected disk. Other methods of disk removal will trigger
the alarm if enabled.
*
Disk properties that can be adjusted.
Read Ahead
Enabling disk read ahead will speed up read operations by pre-fetching data and
loading it into RAM.
Write Cache
Enabling write cache will speed up write operations.
Rescan
Clicking rescan will immediately signal the controller to scan for any changes in the
connection. Clicking this button will also stop any alarm if currently ringing.
