Intel AFCSASRISER User Guide - Page 142

Monitoring Disk Drives and Other Physical Devices, Rebuild rate, Patrol read rate, Reconstruction rate

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Note the following: • The Rebuild rate, Patrol read rate, Reconstruction rate, Consistency check rate, and BGI rate (background initialization) are all user-selectable. For more information, see "Setting Adjustable Task Rates" on page 117. • The BBU Present field indicates whether a battery backup unit is installed. • The Alarm Present and Alarm Enabled fields indicate whether the controller has an alarm to alert the user with an audible tone when there is an error or problem on the controller. There are options on the controller Properties tab for silencing or disabling the alarm. For more information, see "Setting Adjustable Task Rates" on page 117. Monitoring Disk Drives and Other Physical Devices When the Intel® RAID Web Console 2 is running, you can see the status of all physical disk drives and other physical devices in the left panel. If the physical drive is operating normally, the controller icon looks like this: . If the physical drive has failed, a small red circle is displayed to the right of the icon. To display complete physical drive Information, click on a physical drive icon in the left panel. Figure 81 shows the Properties panel for a physical drive. Figure 81. Physical Drive Information There are no user-selectable properties for physical devices. Icons for other physical devices such as CD-ROM drives and DAT drives may also display in the left panel. If the physical drives are in a disk enclosure, you can identify which physical drive is represented by a disk icon on the left. To do this, follow these steps: 1. Click the physical disk icon in the left panel. 130 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide

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Intel
®
RAID Software User’s Guide
Note the following:
The
Rebuild rate
,
Patrol read rate
,
Reconstruction rate
,
Consistency check rate
, and
BGI rate
(background initialization) are all user-selectable. For more information, see
“Setting Adjustable Task Rates” on page 117
.
The
BBU Present
field indicates whether a battery backup unit is installed.
The
Alarm Present
and
Alarm Enabled
fields indicate whether the controller has an
alarm to alert the user with an audible tone when there is an error or problem on the
controller. There are options on the controller Properties tab for silencing or disabling
the alarm. For more information, see
“Setting Adjustable Task Rates” on page 117
.
Monitoring Disk Drives and Other Physical Devices
When the Intel
®
RAID Web Console 2 is running, you can see the status of all physical disk
drives and other physical devices in the left panel. If the physical drive is operating normally,
the controller icon looks like this:
. If the physical drive has failed, a small red circle is
displayed to the right of the icon.
To display complete physical drive Information, click on a physical drive icon in the left panel.
Figure 81
shows the Properties panel for a physical drive.
Figure 81. Physical Drive Information
There are no user-selectable properties for physical devices. Icons for other physical devices
such as CD-ROM drives and DAT drives may also display in the left panel.
If the physical drives are in a disk enclosure, you can identify which physical drive is
represented by a disk icon on the left. To do this, follow these steps:
1.
Click the physical disk icon in the left panel.