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Monitoring Disk Drives and Other Physical Devices

When MegaRAID Storage Manager is running, you can see the status of all physical disk drives and other physical devices in the left panel. If the physical drive is operating normally, the controller icon looks like this: . If the physical drive has failed, a small red circle appears to the right of the icon.

To display complete physical drive Information, click on a physical drive icon in the left panel and click the Properties tab in the right panel.

The information on this tab is self-explanatory. There are no user-selectable properties for physical devices. Icons for other storage devices such as CD-ROM drives and DAT drives may also appear in the left panel.

If the physical drives are in a disk enclosure, you can identify which physical drive is represented by a disk icon on the left. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Click the physical disk icon in the left panel.
  2. Click the Operations tab in the right panel.
  3. Select Locate Physical Drive and click Go.
  4. The LED on the physical disk drive in the enclosure starts blinking to show its location

    LEDs on drives that are global or dedicated hotspares do not blink.

  5. To stop the disk drive light from blinking, select Stop Locating Physical Drive and click Go.

DB09-000159-00  July 2005
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