Promise Technology EX8650A User Manual
SuperTrak EX Series User Manual
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Running Media Patrol on a Disk Array
Media Patrol checks the magnetic media on physical drives. When it finds the
specified number of bad blocks, it will trigger PDM. See “Making Background
Activity Settings” on page 109 and “Running PDM” on page 110.
specified number of bad blocks, it will trigger PDM. See “Making Background
Activity Settings” on page 109 and “Running PDM” on page 110.
You can schedule Media Patrol to run automatically, see “Scheduling an Activity”
on page 111.
on page 111.
To start Media Patrol:
1.
Click the Subsystem
icon in Tree View.
2.
Click the Disk Arrays
icon.
3.
Click the Disk Array icon.
4.
From the dropdown menu on the Background Activities tab, choose Start
Media Patrol.
Media Patrol.
5.
Click the Start button.
Running PDM on a Disk Array
Predictive Data Migration (PDM) migrates data from the suspect physical drive to
a spare physical drive, similar to Rebuilding. But unlike Rebuilding, PDM acts
before the disk drive fails and your Logical Drive goes Critical.
See “Predictive Data Migration (PDM)” on page 184.
To start PDM:
a spare physical drive, similar to Rebuilding. But unlike Rebuilding, PDM acts
before the disk drive fails and your Logical Drive goes Critical.
See “Predictive Data Migration (PDM)” on page 184.
To start PDM:
1.
Click the Subsystem
icon in Tree View.
2.
Click the Disk Arrays
icon.
3.
Click the Disk Array icon.
4.
From the dropdown menu on the Background Activities tab, choose Start
PDM.
PDM.
5.
In the next screen, choose the Source and Target physical drives.
The suspect physical drive is the Source. The replacement physical drive is
the Target.
The suspect physical drive is the Source. The replacement physical drive is
the Target.
6.
Click the Start button.