Adaptec 7220ss User Guide

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Creating and Managing Arrays and Partitions
To view the status of an array:
1
From the System Menu, select Array Menu and press Enter.
The Select Array menu appears.
2
Select the array you want and press Enter.
That array’s Array menu appears.
3
Select Array Status and press Enter.
A window appears showing the status of the array you selected.
4
Press Esc to return to the Array menu.
Viewing Disk Drive Status
You can view the following information for the disk drives in an 
array:
Drive number
—The disk drive’s sequential position in the 
controller’s disk drive list.
Drive status
—Whether the disk drive is up or down.
Channel number
—Back-end disk bus number.
Target ID
—The number assigned to each disk drive attached to 
a SCSI channel (also known as SCSI ID).
Size
—Size of the disk drive in MB.
Status
—If part of an array, this displays the array name and 
member number. If a spare, this displays the type of spare. If 
unused, this displays Available. If the disk drive was part of an 
array that no longer exists, this displays Leftover.
Note: 
If a disk drive has failed or malfunctioned, it may not 
be listed.
To view the status of a disk drive:
1
From the System Menu, select Array Menu and press Enter.
The Select Array menu appears.
2
Select the array you want and press Enter.
That array’s Array menu appears.