User manual ATI WEBPAM VERSION 1.1

[. . . ] WEBPAM USER MANUAL Version 1. 1 WebPAM User Manual Copyright © 2007 ATI Technologies, Inc. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the expressed, written permission of ATI. Trademarks ATI, and the ATI logo are registered in U. S. All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Important data protection information You should back up all data before installing any drive controller or storage peripheral. ATI is not responsible for any loss of data resulting from the use, disuse or misuse of this or any other ATI product. Notice Although ATI has attempted to ensure the accuracy of the content of this manual, it is possible that this document may contain technical inaccuracies, typographical, or other errors. [. . . ] 4. Click on the Physical Drive Click the Disable option. icon. Click on the Media Patrol tab in Management View. Physical Drive Bad Sector Log On occasion, an error can arise with the media on a physical drive. WebPAM keeps track of bad sectors in order to inform you of the condition of individual physical drives. icon in Tree View. Click on the BSL tab in Management View. If any bad sectors are found, they are listed here. WebPAM informs you by popup and email messages when a bad sector error is logged (see page 38). After 10 bad sectors have been discovered on a physical drive, WebPAM issues a warning to replace the drive. After 20 bad sectors have been discovered: · On fault-tolerant (RAID 1 or 10) logical drives, the RAID controller will set down the physical drive (take it offline) and the logical drive will go critical. · On non-fault-tolerant (RAID 0) logical drives, the physical drive remains online. Backup your data, replace the physical drive, create a new logical drive and copy your data to it. See "Logical Drive Rebuild" on page 70 and "Logical Drive Critical / Offline" on page 77. See your system User Manual for more information about replacing a physical drive. 58 Chapter 5: Monitor and Manage Locate a Physical Drive When it becomes necessary to access a physical drive installed in a supported, external enclosure, this function will help you identify the physical drive you want. icon in Tree View. Click on the Locate Drive tab in Management View. 4. Click the Locate Drive button. The Management Window will display the message "Identified started" and the LED for this physical drive will flash rapidly on the enclosure. Click on the Located Release button to stop the LED from blinking. 59 WebPAM User Manual Logical Drives · · · · · · · · Logical Drive View (below) Create a Logical Drive (page 60) JBOD (page 64) Delete a Logical Drive (page 65) Logical Drive Information (page 65) Logical Drive Settings (page 66) Logical Drive Migration (page 67) Logical Drive Migration (page 67) · · · · · · Logical Drive Rebuild (page 70) Synchronize/Redundancy Check All Logical Drives (page 72) Logical Drive Synchronization/ Redundancy Check (page 74) Logical Drive Initialization (page 76) Logical Drive Activation (page 76) Logical Drive Critical / Offline (page 77) Logical Drive View Logical Drive View provides a list of all logical drives currently on the Host PC. To access Logical Drive View, click on the Logical Drive View icon in Tree View. From this screen, you can click on the links to access information and functions of individual logical drives and use the Create and Delete features. Create a Logical Drive A logical drive is a collection of physical drives in a RAID. icon. 60 Chapter 5: Monitor and Manage 3. Select the option beside the RAID level you want for your logical drive. WebPAM displays the RAID levels you can use with the available disk drives. See page 88 for information about the advantages and requirements of the available RAID levels and JBOD. 4. In the Select Drive Type screen, click on the option for one of the following: · · Free Drives ­ Select all Free (unassigned) disk drives Logical Drive ­ Select the Free portion of disk drives whose other portion is assigned to a Logical Drive The available choices depend on the RAID level you selected and the disk drives available. Click the Next button. 61 WebPAM User Manual 6. If you want to create a logical drive with unused capacity, enter the assigned (used) capacity in the Logical Drive Size field. To use the maximum capacity, check the Use Maximum Capacity box. If you selected JBOD, click the Finish button on the Select Drives screen. This completes the creation process for JBOD. 9. Enter a name for the logical drive in the field provided. 62 Chapter 5: Monitor and Manage 10. The size selected affects how the SATA controller sends and receives data blocks to and from the drives. In general, a larger block size is better when handling large data transfers (such as A/V editing and graphics) while a smaller size is better when handling email and other common server data. · GigaByte Boundary ­ Rounds the size of the logical drive down to the nearest whole gigabyte. [. . . ] WebPAM will report events to you in the form of email and popup messages. You might only select Warning and Error events, so that you only receive messages when something is wrong. Another method is to periodically log into WebPAM and check the Status of your logical drives. Depending on your Event Notification settings, WebPAM will send you and email message and display a popup message indicating the degraded condition. [. . . ]