Galaxy Metal Gear 65 - Manual (Page 73)

Drive & Eclosure Management
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Chapter 6
Managing Disk Drives &
Enclosures
SAM lets you control a variety of functions related to devices and enclosure management processor
(EMP) enclosures connected to your Galaxy 65 Subsystem.
• For devices, you can:
– Display device information (see page 53 )
– Clear metadata from a disk drive (see page 54 )
– Enable or disable write-back cache (see page 55 )
– Display disk cache status (see page 55 )
– Enable or disable changes to SMART (see page 55 )
– Blink a drive LED (see page 56 )
– Take down a disk drive (see page 56 )
– Test a disk drive (see page 57 )
• For EMP enclosures, you can:
– Change the EMP LUN (see page 57 )
– Change additional EMP settings (see page 58 )
6.1 Managing Disk Drives
SAM 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.
6.1.1 Displaying Disk Drive Information
You can display two types of information about disk drives:
• A list of all drives connected to the Galaxy 65 Subsystem
• The status of all disk drives in an array