Making Global Physical Drive Settings; Viewing Physical Drive Information - Asus DS300i User Manual

Making Global Physical Drive Settings

Global settings apply to all of the physical disk drives installed in the ASUS
Storage subsystem enclosure. To make global physical drive settings:
1. Click the Subsystem
2. Click the Enclosures
3. Click the Enclosure
4. Click the Physical Drives
5. Click the Global Settings tab in Management View.
6. Make the settings as needed.
For SATA drives, check the boxes to enable:
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Write Cache
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Read Look Ahead Cache
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Command Queuing (for disk drives that support Command Queuing)
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From the DMA Mode dropdown menu, choose a DMA mode.
For SAS drives, check the boxes to enable:
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Write Cache
•
Read Look Ahead Cache
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Command Queuing (for disk drives that support Command Queuing)
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Read Cache
7. Click the Submit button.
The functions you enable here depend on whether the physical drives
support those functions. See ―Viewing Physical Drive Information‖ on
page 141 to determine which functions a particular drive supports.

Viewing Physical Drive Information

To view physical drive information:
1. Click the Subsystem
2. Click the Enclosures
3. Click the Enclosure
4. Click the Physical Drives
5. Click a Physical Drive
Useful information provided here includes:
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The location of the physical drive is highlighted in the Enclosure Front View
diagram.
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