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Creating and Managing Arrays

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Using the Hardware Functions

The Hardware Functions option provides tools for

■

Identifying the array that uses a specific drive

■

Identifying the location of a selected drive by blinking the light

on the front panel of the drive

■

Suspending host adapter activity while you replace drives in

an array

Identifying the Allocation of Host Adapter Drives

You can quickly identify where each host adapter drive is used by

selecting the Display Host Adapter Drives option. This option lets

you display for every drive the following information:

■

The array that contains the drive

■

The ordinal number of the drive in the array

To display the information, follow these steps:

If the system has only one array, skip to step 2. Otherwise,

from the System menu select any array. The Main menu

appears.

From the Main menu, select

ardware Functions

Select

Display Host A

dapter Drives.

A screen similar to that in

Figure 6-2 appears

In the menu at the left of the screen, press the

Tab

key to high-

light the host adapter channel whose drives you want to dis-

play. The drives for that channel appear to the right, in the

SCSI IDs on Channel menu.

Press the ↑ and ↓ keys to highlight the drive names. As you

highlight each drive name, the array information for that drive

appears in the box at the right of the screen.

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