Adaptec 1210SA User Guide - Page 49

Changing How Drives are Displayed, View

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Using Adaptec Storage Manager - Browser Edition Changing How Drives are Displayed By default, the Physical Devices displays a condensed view of the controller configuration that hides detailed information about the drives. More information is available by either positioning the mouse pointer over the device or clicking on the arrowhead to the left of a row of devices. The selected display mode button will appear in a lighter shade of blue than the other two buttons. The default display is the Text Description View, but in the condensed view used when Adaptec Storage Manager is loaded, the display is the same in all three modes. If you change the display mode by selecting one of the other view buttons, a yellow arrow flashes to the left of any devices where the condensed display prevents omits information. An icon is always the first entry on each device line. The icon is used to represent a hard disk drive. If a + symbol appears with the hard disk drive icon , the drive is a hot spare. Different icons are used to represent other devices. View is the default display mode and when expanded, will show the following information about each device: s Capacity of the drive s Drive manufacturer and model number s SCSI drive ID, or Serial ATA port number When expanded, the Full Size Capacity View button and the Relative Size Capacity View button represent each drive as a bar. A drive that is not used as part of any array is shaded blue surrounded by a dotted line. displays a full-length bar for each drive, regardless of capacity. displays a bar for each drive, with the largest capacity drive full-length and the other drives proportional to the drive capacity, relative to the largest drive. 5-9

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Using Adaptec Storage Manager
Browser Edition
Changing How Drives are Displayed
By default, the
Physical Devices
displays a condensed view of the
controller configuration that hides detailed information about the
drives. More information is available by either positioning the
mouse pointer over the device or clicking on the arrowhead to the
left of a row of devices.
The selected display mode button will appear in a lighter shade of
blue than the other two buttons. The default display is the
Text
Description View
, but in the condensed view used when Adaptec
Storage Manager is loaded, the display is the same in all three
modes.
If you change the display mode by selecting one of the other view
buttons, a yellow arrow flashes to the left of any devices where the
condensed display prevents omits information.
An icon is always the first entry on each device line. The
icon is
used to represent a hard disk drive. If a + symbol appears with the
hard disk drive icon
, the drive is a hot spare. Different icons are
used to represent other devices.
View
is the default display mode and when expanded, will show the
following information about each device:
Capacity of the drive
Drive manufacturer and model number
SCSI drive ID, or Serial ATA port number
When expanded, the
Full Size Capacity View
button
and the
Relative Size Capacity View
button
represent each drive as a
bar. A drive that is not used as part of any array is shaded blue
surrounded by a dotted line.
displays a full-length bar for each drive, regardless of capacity.
displays a bar for each drive, with the largest capacity drive
full-length and the other drives proportional to the drive capacity,
relative to the largest drive.