Promise Technology VTRAK E610f User Manual

VTrak E-Class Product Manual
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Figure 10.VTrak drive carrier LEDs
Making Global Physical Drive Settings
Global settings apply to all of the physical disk drives installed in the VTrak
subsystem enclosure. To make global physical drive settings:
1. Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.
2. Click the Enclosures icon.
3. Click the Enclosure icon.
4. Click the Physical Drives icon.
5. Click the Global Settings tab in Management View.
6. Make the settings as needed.
For SATA drives, check the boxes to enable:
• Write Cache
• Read Look Ahead Cache
• Command Queuing (for disk drives that support Command Queuing)
• From the DMA Mode dropdown menu, choose a DMA mode.
For SAS drives, check the boxes to enable:
• Write Cache
• Read Look Ahead Cache
• Command Queuing (for disk drives that support Command Queuing)
• Read Cache
For SATA and SAS drives, type a number into the:
• Medium Error Threshold field (see below)
7. Click the Submit button.
The functions you enable here depend on whether the physical drives
support those functions. See “Viewing Physical Drive Information” on
page 133 to determine which functions a particular drive supports.
Medium Error Threshold is the number of bad blocks tolerated before the
controller marks the drive as Dead. The default setting of zero disables this
Disk Status LED

Promise Technology VTRAK E610f Specifications

General

Brand	Promise Technology
Model	VTRAK E610f
Category	Storage
Language	English