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Express Setup / Advanced Setup Menus
Express Setup and Advanced Setup (Chapter 7) have the following menu options. See Figure 15.
1. Use “Configure Host Drives” to configure already existing host drives or create new ones. For
example, you can create a new host drive under normal operation without shutting down the
computer.
2. Use “Repair Array Drives” to repair array drives which have failed drives.
3. Use “Configure Controller” to setup the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31. Here, you can change
the cache settings, termination, and memory test, etc.
4. Use “Configure Physical Devices” to initialize the devices at the physical level, for example,
change the SCSI protocol, transfer rates, etc.
5. Use “Configure Logical Drive” to configure or create logical drives.
6. Use “Configure Array Drives” to configure or create array drives.
Monitor Menu
View Statistics
The View Statistics menu (Figure 16) displays the performance of the drives and their
corresponding level of hierarchy. The throughput of the drives is displayed in KB’s (KiloBytes per
second) and I/O’s (I/Os per second, number of I/O’s on the controller). The performance figures
reflect the load on the controller and not necessarily the maximum performance the controller can
deliver.
Figure 16. View Statistics Menu
When selecting a drive’s statistics, StorCon displays a list of all drives for a particular RAID level
(for this example the physical drive for RAID level 1). In addition to the performance report on the
drives, the menu monitor displays the hard disk drive I/O channel, hard disk drive ID, hard disk
drive name and hard disk drive gross capacity (1 MB = 1024 KB). See Figure 17. The figures
shown at TOTAL represent the performance of the host drives as a whole. With the left arrow and
right arrow keys you may change the scale of the graphical KB/s indication. With the up arrow and
down arrow keys you can scroll the screen to see additional Drives (if available).