8
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.
To Next Page
Loading...
Need help?
General
Weight and Dimensions
