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104 Intel RAID Controller SRCMR User’s Guide
Configure Physical Devices
This menu option displays a list of IO channels (SCSI or Fibre Channel) and available devices.
See Figure 43.
Scroll the list with the cursor up/down keys. The first column displays the IO channel (“SCSI”
stands for SCSI and “FCAL” for Fibre-Channel). The next column shows the ID followed by the
LUN (Logical Unit Number; normally always 0). The next column is either filled with a lowercase
“i” (for initialized), or empty. Initialization means the creation of Intel RAID Controller
SRCMR-specific configuration data on the hard disks and the adjustment of hard disk specific
operating parameters (protocol, transfer rate, etc.). The next entry lists the vendor and type of
device, followed by the drive’s attributes (RW for Read/Write; RO for Read Only). The IO
processors and SAF-TE processors (in our example channel B ID 8: SDR, Inc. GEM312 REV001)
to not have attributes. The next column lists the capacity of the hard disk in MB (1MB = 1024KB;
1GB=1024MB). The last column gives information on the assignment of this physical device to a
logical/array/host drive.
Figure 43. Select Physical Drive
Keyboard Commands
With Intel RAID Controller SRCMR Fibre Channel RAID Controllers, <F4> delivers extended
information on Fibre Channel drives (World Wide Name, firmware-level and the Link-status of the
drive).
By pressing <F5> the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR periodically turns the LED (if available) of
the corresponding drive on and off. This helps to physically identify a specific drive in an array of
many drives.
By pressing <F8> you can repair the configuration data of a physical drive. If your Intel RAID
Controller SRCMR should ever display during the boot sequence a message like “Detected Primary
Configuration Data error, using Secondary”, you can try to repair the data with <F8>.
If you press <Enter> on a specific drive, StorCon opens the Configure Disk menu. Here, all
relevant adjustments and modifications concerning the physical drives can be carried out.