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Physical Drive Information
• Slot No – This is the Controller channel ID number to which this physical
drive is attached. If you have a drive on a channel but it does not appear in
WebPAM, there is a bad connection.
• Physical Drive Model – The drive manufacturer's identification.
• Physical Drive Capacity – The effective data storage capacity in gigabytes.
This is total capacity, not available capacity.
• Physical Drive Status – The functional status of an individual disk drive.
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Functional means normal.
• Disk is being rebuilt means this drive is the Target Drive of the rebuild
operation that is in progress.
• Disk Offline means this drive is not available for use due to an error. See
Rebuild Logical Drive.
• Status – Refers to assignable status of an individual disk drive.
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Free means available for use in a Disk Array.
• Assigned means that it currently belongs to the Disk Array shown.
• Spare means it has been designated as a Hot Spare.
• Error means not available due to a problem with this physical drive.
• S.M.A.R.T. Status – This refers to Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology, a form of predictive failure analysis that examines disk drive
behavior for indications of a coming failure.
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Healthy means there are no indications of trouble.
• Alert means there have been indications that the disk drive could fail
soon. If you see an alert, back up your data, then remove and test the
disk drive.
• Disabled means the SMART has been disabled or is not a feature of this
disk drive. You must enable SMART function for each Logical Drive.
To see more information about a specific disk drive, click on its icon.
Physical Drive
The Physical Drive–Information tab gives a description and reports the status of
the hard disk drives (physical drives) in the enclosure. To access a physical drive:
1. Click the Subsystem icon.
2. Click on the VTrak icon.
3. Click on the Enclosures icon.
4. Click on the Enclosure icon.