HP Insight Management Agents User Manual

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Drive Type—Indicates the type of physical drive. The following values are valid:

SCSI—The physical drive is a parallel SCSI drive.

SATA—The physical drive is a Serial ATA drive.

SAS—The physical drive is a Serial attached SCSI drive.

Unknown—The Storage Agents cannot determine the drive type.

Media Type—Indicates the type of media the physical drive is composed of. The following
values are valid:

Rotating Platters—Indicates that the physical drive media is composed of rotating platters.

Solid State—Indicates that the physical drive media is composed of solid state electronics.

Unknown—Indicates that the Storage Agents cannot determine the media type.

Maximum Temperature—Indicates the maximum temperature in degrees Celsius that the drive
has reached.

Current Temperature—Indicates the current drive temperature in degrees Celsius.

Temperature Threshold—Indicates the temperature in degrees Celsius at which the drive says
it is overheated.

Negotiated Link Rate—Displays the negotiated link rate for SAS and SATA physical drives.
The possible values are:

1.5 Gbps—The negotiated link rate for this drive is 1.5 gigabits per second.

3.0 Gbps—The negotiated link rate for this drive is 3.0 gigabits per second.

6.0 Gbps—The negotiated link rate for this drive is 6.0 gigabits per second.

Unknown—The agent is unable to determine the negotiated link rate for this drive.

NCQ Support—Displays the status of Native Command Queuing support for this drive. The
possible values are:

No Controller Support—The array controller does not support NCQ.

No Drive Support—The array controller does support NCQ, but the drive does not.

Disabled—The array controller and drive support NCQ, but it is disabled.

Enabled—The array controller and drive support NCQ and it is enabled.

Unknown—The agent is unable to determine the NCQ configuration for this drive or it
is not a SATA drive.

Phy Count—Displays the number of phys for each physical drive. Single-ported drives have
one phy. Dual-ported drives have two phys.

Multipath Status—Displays the overall multipath status of this physical drive. The following
values are valid:

Not Configured—Indicates that the physical drive is not configured to have multipath
access.

Redundant—Indicates that the physical drive currently has more than one I/O path to
the controller.

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