Simple array setup, Physical drive selection menu, Device configuration – Dell PERC 4/SI User Manual

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Physical Drive Selection Menu

 

The configuration utility offers the Physical Drive Selection Menu which you can use to perform actions on the physical drives in an array, such as rebuilding a
drive or making a hot spare online or offline. Some of these actions are described in detail in other sections of this chapter. Perform the following steps to view
the actions you can select.

1.

 

On the Management Menu select Objects—> Physical Drive.

 

A physical drive selection screen appears.

2.

 

Select a hard drive in the READY state and press <Enter> to display the action menu for the physical drives.

 

The menu items are:

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Rebuild

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Clear

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Force Online

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Force Offline/Remove HSP

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Make HotSpare

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View Drive Information

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View Rebuild Progress

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SCSI Command Qtagging

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Set Write Cache

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Transfer Speed Option

 

Device Configuration

 

You can fill in the following table to list the devices assigned to Channel 1. The PERC 4/Si and 4e/Si controllers have one channel, and the PERC 4/Di and 4e/Di
have two.

 

Use

Table 4

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to list the devices that you assign to each SCSI ID for SCSI Channel 1.

 

 

Table 4-8. Configuration for SCSI Channel 1 

 

SCSI Channel 1

SCSI ID

Device Description                                             

 

0

                                                                                                                 

 

1

  

 

2

  

 

3

  

 

4

  

 

5

  

 

6

  

 

7

 

Reserved for host controller.

 

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9

  

 

10

  

 

11

  

 

12

  

 

13

  

 

14

  

 

15

  

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