Physical Devices

The Physical Devices window has three subsections: Physical Disks, Port Multipliers, and Expanders.

 

Physical Disks

The Physical Disks window displays the drives on your computer and indicates the status of each physical drive.

 

Use the Media Patrol button to detect bad sectors of a configured disk drive. The RAID engine attempts to fix these bad sectors.

 

MRU Physical Disks

 

Click Legend Legend button at the bottom corner for a quick overview of the physical disk icons.

 

Physical Disk Icon
Name
Description

Configured

Configured

Device has been configured as part of a virtual disk or as a spare.

Unconfigured

Unconfigured

Device is not part of a virtual disk or a spare.

Offline

Offline

 

The virtual disk has failed and its data is no longer available.

Tape

Tape

SAS/SATA tape device.

CD DVD

CD/DVD

SAS/SATA CD/DVD device.

Spare Drive

Spare drive

The device has been configured as spare drive.

 

Click on a physical disk icon to view the Physical Disk Details window, which displays the properties of the chosen physical disk and the available resources for creating a virtual disk.

 

You can perform the following tasks from this window:

 

Physical disk details window

Port Multipliers

The Port Multipliers window displays general information about all currently connected port multiplier devices, as shown in Figure 3-7. A port multiplier device allows you to expand ports for SATA drives. Only SATA drives can connect to a port multiplier device.

Port Multipliers

 

For more detailed information about a port multiplier, click its icon to open the Port Multiplier Details window.

 

Port Multiplier Details window

Expanders

The Expanders window provides information about all currently connected expanders. Expanders offer greater expansion capabilities and can only connect to SAS ports. Both SAS and SATA drives can connect behind an expander.

Expanders window

 

For more detailed information about an expander, click its icon to open the Expander Details window.

 

Expander Details window