HP NetRAID 1 Controller - Manual (Page 50)

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Make Online: Changes the state of the selected disk drive to Online
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Fail Drive: Changes the state of the selected disk drive to Fail
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Make Hot spare: Designates the selected disk drive as a hot spare
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Properties: Displays the selected physical drive properties of Device Type, Capacity,
Vendor ID, Product ID, Revision, SCSI Standard, and Device Errors.
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Synchronous Negotiation: Disables synchronous negotiation for the selected physical
device. The default is Enabled.
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SCSI-2 Command Tagging: Sets 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
The SCSI Channel option allows you to select a SCSI channel on the currently selected adapter.
Select a channel to perform the operations described below.
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Terminate High 8 Bits: Enables termination on the selected channel for the upper eight bits
and disable termination on the adapter for the lower eight bits. Use this setting if the selected
SCSI channel is terminated with 8-bit devices at both ends.
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Terminate Wide Channel: Enables Wide termination for the selected channel. If the adapter
is at one end of the SCSI bus for the selected channel, you must use this option. This is the
default setting.
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Disable Termination: Disables termination on the adapter for the selected channel. Use this
option if the selected SCSI channel is terminated with Wide devices at both ends.
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Automatic Termination: Enables Automatic Termination on the adapter for the selected
channel.
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Ultra/Wide SCSI: Enables/Disables adapter Ultra/Wide SCSI. The default is Disabled. New
parameters will become effective on the next system reboot.
Battery Backup (HP NetRAID only)
Displays the battery status. This menu item will produce an error message (missing battery) if
accessed with the NetRAID-1 adapter. Disregard the message for NetRAID-1 adapters.
Format
Formatting a hard drive destroys all data on the drive. Choose the Format option to low-level format
one or more physical drives only if:
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The disk drive was not low-level formatted at the factory.
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There is an excessive number of media errors detected on the disk drive.
Since most SCSI disk drives are low-level formatted at the factory, this step is usually not necessary.
NOTE You do not need to use the Format option to erase existing information on your
SCSI disks, such as a DOS partition. That information is erased when you
initialize the logical drive(s).
To format a hard drive, select Format, then select the drive you want to format from the drives listed.
Rebuild
Choose the Rebuild option from the HP NetRAID Express Tools Setup Management Menu to
rebuild one or more failed disk drives. When the physical drives Selection Menu opens, choose the