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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.
Beeper Mute
The controller emits a beeping sound whenever:
An array enters a
critical
status
An array enters
disabled
status
You unplug a disk
Your disk fails due to bad sectors
SMART sensors anticipate drive failure
If the device is currently beeping, clicking
Beeper Mute
will mute the sound
immediately.
Note
: This button does not permanently mute the alarm. In order to
permanently mute the alarm, go to:
Setting
>
Enable audible alarm
>
Disabled
. See
Setting Tab for more 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.
