Promise Technology EX8650 User Manual

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Chapter 5: Management with WebPAM PRO
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Promise Enclosures
To locate a physical drive in the enclosure, click the Locate PDx button. The disk 
status LED will blink for one minute to identify the carrier holding the physical 
drive.
Making Global Physical Drive Settings
Global settings apply to all of the physical disk drives installed under the 
SuperTrak controller. The functions include:
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.
Check the features you want to enable.
Uncheck any features you want to disable. 
For SATA drives, choose UDMA 5 in the DMA Mode dropdown menu.
7.
Click the Submit button. 
The changes take effect immediately.
The functions you enable here depend on whether the physical drives 
support those functions. See “Viewing Physical Drive Information” on 
page 123 to
 determine which functions a particular drive supports.
Viewing Physical Drive Information
To view physical drive information:
1.
Click the Subsystem 
 icon in Tree View. 
2.
Click the Enclosures   icon. 
3.
Click the Enclosure   icon. 
4.
Click the Physical Drives   icon. 
SATA Drives
SAS Drives
Enable Write Cache
Enable Read Look Ahead Cache
Enable Command Queuing
DMA Mode
Enable Write Cache
Enable Read Look Ahead Cache
Enable Command Queuing
Enable Read Look Ahead Cache