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1.6 Viewing Drive Assignments
From the Main Menu screen, press 1 to see the View Drive Assignments screen.
This screen reports physical drive assignments and provides the following information:
Port: ID – Shows the AMD motherboard port ID number to which a particular physical drive is attached. The
total number of ports depends on the motherboard and whether a port multiplier is connected.
Drive Model – Identifies the manufacturer, model, and model number (if applicable) of each physical drive.
S.M.A.R.T. refers to the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting System that monitors the condition of disk
drives. Healthy means the disk drive is OK.
Capabilities – The type and speed of the physical drive, such as SATA 1.5 Gb/s, 3.0 Gb/s, or 6.0 Gb/s.
Capacity (GB) – Reflects the capacity in GB (gigabytes) of the physical drive.
Assignment – This field identifies the logical drive to which the physical drive belongs. In the example above,
there is one logical drive composed of two physical drives. LD 1-2 means logical drive 1, physical drive 2.
Unassigned drives are labeled Single Disk. You can use unassigned drives to create a new logical drive.
Extent – An extent is a portion of the physical drive. The Option ROM Utility allows you to split the capacity of a
physical drive between two logical drives. The portion of a physical drive available to be used in a logical drive
is called an extent. The sum of the two extents is slightly smaller than the total capacity of the physical drive.
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