Promise Technology Vess A Series User Manual

Making Global Physical Drive Settings (CLU)
All physical drive settings are made globally, except for setting an alias, which applies to individual
drives.
To make global physical drive settings:
1. Main Menu >> Physical Drive Management >> Global Physical Drives Settings
2. Change the following settings as required.
• HighlightWrite Cacheandpressthespacebarto
togglebetweenEnabledandDisabled.
• HighlightRead Look Ahead Cacheandpressthespacebar
totogglebetweenEnabledandDisabled.
• HighlightMediumErrorThresholdandpressthebackspacekeyto
removethecurrentvalue,thentypeanewsmallervalue.
• HighlightDMA Modeandpressthespacebartotoggle
throughUDMA0to6andMDMA0to2.
3. Press Control-A to save your settings.
See “Viewing Physical Drive Information” below to determine which functions your physical
drives support.
Medium Error Threshold is the number of bad blocks tolerated before the controller marks
the drive as Dead. The default setting is 64 blocks. A setting of zero disables the function.
When disabled, no drives are marked ofine even when errors are detected.
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Promise Technology Vess A Series Specifications

General

Brand	Promise Technology
Model	Vess A Series
Category	Network Hardware
Language	English