Managing disk drives and enclosures, Appendix f, F.1 managing disk drives – Galaxy Metal Gear 65 User Manual

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Managing Drives & Enclosures

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Appendix F

Managing Disk Drives
and Enclosures

Using the Disk Array Administrator, you can control a variety of functions related to disk drives and
enclosure management processor (EMP) enclosures connected to your Galaxy 65 Subsystem.

• For drives, you can:

Display drive information (see

page 173

)

Clear metadata from a drive (see

page 177

)

Enable/disable write-back cache (see

page 177

)

Display disk cache status (see

page 179

)

Enable/disable changes to SMART (see

page 181

)

Blink a drive LED (see

page 182

)

Take down a drive (see

page 182

)

Test a drive (see

page 183

)

• For EMP enclosures, you can:

Change the EMP LUN (see

page 184

)

Change additional EMP settings (see

page 187

)

F.1 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.

F.1.1 Displaying Drive Information

You can display three types of information about disk drives:

• A list of all drives connected to the Galaxy 65 Subsystem

• The status of all drives in an array

• Errors on a specific drive and reset error statistics

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