Chaparral K5312/K7313 - Manual (Page 109)

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Managing Disk Drives and
Enclosures
The Disk Array Administrator software lets you control a variety of functions related
to disk drives and SAF-TE Environmental Processor (SEP) enclosures connected to
your controller.
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For drives, you can:
– Display drive information (see page 8-2)
– Clear metadata from a drive (see page 8-10)
– Enable/disable write-back cache and display cache status (see page 8-5)
– Enable/disable changes to SMART (see page 8-8)
– Blink a drive LED (see page 8-9)
– Take down a drive (see page 8-10)
– Test a drive (see page 8-11)
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For SEP enclosures, you can:
– Change the SEP LUN (see page 8-12)
– Change additional SEP settings (see page 8-14)
Managing Disk Drives
The Disk Array Administrator software lets you control a variety of functions related
to disk drives. You should also refer to your disk drive or enclosure documentation for
information about related functions.