RAIDBank4 Owner’s Manual
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4. Physical Drive Functions
Choose this option from the Main Menu to select a physical disk and to perform the operations
listed below. To enter a Physical Drive Functions, press
ENT
to enter the main menu. Scroll
to select the Physical Drive Functions option and then press
ENT
to enter further submenus.
All physical drive submenus will be displayed.
4.1 Display Drive Information
Select the View Drive Information option and press
ENT
. Select the drive to display. The drive
information screen shows the Model Name, Serial Number, Firmware Rev., Device Capacity,
Current SATA Transfer mode, Supported SATA Transfer mode, and Device State.
4.2 Create a Pass-Through Disk
A Pass-through disk can be defined to dedicate a single disk as not controlled by the RAIDBank4
firmware and thus cannot be a part of a RAID set. Instead, the disk is available to the operating
system as an individual disk. To create a Pass-Through disk, select the Create Pass-Through
Disk option and press
ENT
. Select the drive number to create, and the drive attributes will be
displayed. Select attribute to modify and then press
ENT
. Select attribute value and press the
ENT
to accept the selection value.
4.3 Modify Pass-Through Disk
To modify Pass-Through Disk attributes, scroll to choose the
“Modify Pass-Through Drive”
option, and then press
ENT
. The Select Drive Function menu will show all Pass-Through Drive
number items. Select the Pass-Through Disk to modify and press
ENT
. The attributes screen
shows the Pass-Through Disk setting value currently configured. Select the desired attribute
to modify and Press
ENT
to modify the default value. Select attribute value and press
ENT
to
accept the selection. After completing the modification, press
ESC
to enter the confirmation
screen and then press
ENT
to accept.
4.4 Delete Pass-Through Disk
To delete pass-through drive from the pass-through drive pool, scroll to choose the
“Delete
Pass-Through Drive option”
, and then press
ENT
. The Select Drive Function menu will show
all Pass-Through Drive number items. Select the Pass-Through Disk to delete and press
ENT
.
The Delete Pass-Through confirmation screen will appear. Press
ENT
to confirm deletion.
4.5 Identify Selected Drive
This function is designed to prevent removing the wrong drive by illuminating the selected
disk HDD LED Indicator. To identify the selected drive from the physical drive pool, scroll to
choose the
“Identify Selected Drive”
option and press
ENT
. Select the Disk to identify and
press
ENT
. The selected disk HDD LED indicator will flash.
3-RAID Control-LCD
