Promise Technology FastTrak TX4310, User Manual

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FastTrak TX4310 User Manual
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• S.M.A.R.T. Status – SMART, an acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis and
Reporting Technology, is a feature of the disk drive software. When this
feature is supported, the drive will pass SMART information to the FastTrak
controller when it polls the physical drives.
• Write Cache Status – Indicates whether the disk drive’s write cache is
Enabled or Disabled. You can change this status under the Settings tab (see
below).
Physical Drive Settings
Physical Drive Settings allows you to enable or disable the Write Cache and
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) on an individual physical drive. To access the
physical drive setting:
1. Click on the Physical Drive View icon in Tree View.
2. Click on the Physical Drive icon.
3. Click on the Settings tab in Management View.
4. Click the Write Cache Enable or Disable radio button.
5. Click the NCQ Enable or Disable radio button.
6. Click the Submit button.
Physical Drive Media Patrol
The Physical Drive–Media Patrol tab allows you to start Media Patrol on an
individual physical drive. You can also run Media Patrol on all physical drives at
the same time, see page 61.
Media Patrol is a routine maintenance procedure that checks the magnetic media
on each disk drive, sector by sector. Media Patrol checks physical drives
assigned to logical drives, spare drives and currently unassigned physical drives
that were once part of a logical drive or a spare. Media Patrol does not check new
physical drives that have never been configured nor physical drives assigned as
JBOD.
Unlike Synchronization and Redundancy Check, Media Patrol is concerned with
the condition of the media itself, not the data recorded on the media. If Media