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Physical Drive
Choose the Physical Drive option from the Objects menu to select a physical device and to
perform the operations listed in the table below. The physical hard disk drives in the system
are listed. Move the cursor to the desired device and press
ENTER
to display the following:
NOTE
On systems with two-channel MegaRAID controllers, only two columns representing the two
channels will appear on the Physical Drive menu.
The following table describes the Physical Drive options.
Option
Description
Rebuild
Choose this option to rebuild the selected disk drive.
Format
Choose this option to low-level format the selected disk drive.
Make Online
Choose this option to change the state of the selected disk drive to Online.
Fail Drive
Choose this option to change the state of the selected disk drive to Fail.
Make Hotspare
Choose this option to designate the selected disk drive as a hotspare.
View Drive
Information
Choose this option to display the manufacturer data for the selected
physical device.
Synchronous
Negotiation
Choose this option to enable or disable synchronous negotiation for the
selected physical device. The default is Enabled.
SCSI-2
Command
Tagging
Choose this option to set the number of queue tags per command to 2, 3,
or 4, or to disable command tagging. The default setting is 4 queue tags.
SCSI Channel
Choose the SCSI Channel option from the Objects menu to select a SCSI channel on the
currently selected controller.