Advanced controller properties
Clearing the cache memory
1 Enter the Dell PERC 10 Conguration Utility. See Navigating to Dell PERC 10 conguration utility.
2 Click Main Menu > Controller Management > Advanced Controller Properties.
3 Click Cache and Memory > Discard Preserved Cache.
The preserved cache is cleared successfully.
Setting patrol read
1 Enter the Dell PERC 10 Conguration Utility. See Navigating to Dell PERC 10 conguration utility.
2 Click Main Menu > Controller Management > Advanced Controller Properties.
3 Click Patrol Read.
The following options are displayed:
• Start — Starts patrol read for the selected controller.
• Suspend — Suspends the ongoing patrol read operation on the controller.
• Resume — Resumes the suspended patrol read operation.
• Stop — Stops patrol read for the selected controller.
4 Set the Mode to Auto, Manual, or Disabled.
5 Click Apply Changes.
Enabling physical disk power management
1 Enter the Dell PERC 10 Conguration Utility. See Navigating to Dell PERC 10 conguration utility.
2 Click Main Menu > Controller Management > Advanced Controller Properties.
3 Click Physical Disk Power Management.
The following list of options is displayed:
• Time Interval for Spin Down — allows the user to specify the delay time before a disk is spun down.
• Spin Down Hot Spare — allows you to enable or disable the spin down of hot spare disks.
• Spin Down Uncongured Good — spin down of un-congured disks.
4 Select the applicable options and click Apply Changes.
The changes made are saved successfully.
Conguring hot spare
1 Enter the Dell PERC 10 Conguration Utility. See Navigating to Dell PERC 10 conguration utility.
2 Click Main Menu > Controller Management > Advanced Controller Properties.
3 Click Spare.
The following list of options are displayed:
• Persistent Hot Spare — allows you to enable or disable the ability to have same system backplane or storage enclosure disk slots
dedicated as hot spare slots.
• Allow Replace Member with Revertible Hot Spare — allows you to enable or disable the option to copy the data form a hot spare
disk to physical disk.
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