
VTrak E-Class Product Manual
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Figure 10.VTrak drive carrier LEDs
Making Global Physical Drive Settings
Global settings apply to all of the physical disk drives installed in the VTrak
subsystem enclosure. 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. Make the settings as needed.
For SATA drives, check the boxes to enable:
• Write Cache
• Read Look Ahead Cache
• Command Queuing (for disk drives that support Command Queuing)
• From the DMA Mode dropdown menu, choose a DMA mode.
For SAS drives, check the boxes to enable:
• Write Cache
• Read Look Ahead Cache
• Command Queuing (for disk drives that support Command Queuing)
• Read Cache
For SATA and SAS drives, type a number into the:
• Medium Error Threshold field (see the comments below)
7. Click the Submit button.
See “Viewing Physical Drive Information” on page 133 to determine which
functions your physical drives support.
Medium Error Threshold is the number of bad blocks tolerated before the
controller marks the drive as Dead. The default setting is 64 blocks. A setting
of zero disables the function. When disabled, no drives are marked offline
even when errors are detected.
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