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Saving Your Controller Configuration, Setting a Controller’s Default Task Priority

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Chapter 8: Maintaining Physical Devices ● 93 Saving Your Controller Configuration If you require a record of your controller configurations, you can use Adaptec Storage Manager to create a text file with this information about all controllers on a selected system: ● Controllers ● Disk drives ● Disk drives used in logical drives ● Logical drives To save a system's controller configurations: 1 In the Enterprise View, click the local or remote system. 2 In the menu bar, select Actions, then click Save printable configuration. 3 In the Save window, browse to the directory you want, then enter a file name for the report. (The default directory is the directory in which the Adaptec Storage Manager is installed. The default file name is RaidCfg.log.) A text-file report is saved. Setting a Controller's Default Task Priority To set the default priority for all tasks running on the controller to High, Medium, or Low, right-click the controller in the Enterprise View, then select Change default task priority. Note: This setting applies to new tasks. It does not affect currently running tasks. Enabling Native Command Queuing on a Controller Native Command Queuing, or NCQ, lets SATA disk drives arrange commands into the most efficient order for optimum performance. To enable or disable NCQ for the drives on a controller: 1 In the Enterprise view, select a controller. 2 In the menu bar, select Actions, select NCQ, then click Enable or Disable. Disabling Statistics Logging on a Controller If you enabled statistics logging when you first logged in (see page 30), Adaptec Storage Manager gathers IO and usage statistics for all controllers on a system. If you prefer not to gather statistics for a controller, you can disable statistics logging on that controller. To disable statistics logging on a controller: 1 In the Enterprise view, select a controller. 2 In the menu bar, select Actions, select Advanced Statistics, then click Disable. Re-Enabling Statistics Logging To re-enable statistics logging, repeat steps 1 and 2 in Disabling Statistics Logging on a Controller, selecting Enable in Step 2.

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Chapter 8: Maintaining Physical Devices
●
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Saving Your Controller Configuration
If you require a record of your controller configurations, you can use Adaptec Storage Manager
to create a text file with this information about all controllers on a selected system:
●
Controllers
●
Disk drives
●
Disk drives used in logical drives
●
Logical drives
To save a system’s controller configurations:
1
In the Enterprise View, click the local or remote system.
2
In the menu bar, select
Actions
, then click
Save printable configuration
.
3
In the Save window, browse to the directory you want, then enter a file name for the report.
(The default directory is the directory in which the Adaptec Storage Manager is installed.
The default file name is RaidCfg.log.)
A text-file report is saved.
Setting a Controller’s Default Task Priority
To set the default priority for all tasks running on the controller to High, Medium, or Low,
right-click the controller in the Enterprise View, then select
Change default task priority
.
Note:
This setting applies to new tasks. It does not affect currently running tasks.
Enabling Native Command Queuing on a Controller
Native Command Queuing, or NCQ, lets SATA disk drives arrange commands into the most
efficient order for optimum performance.
To enable or disable NCQ for the drives on a controller:
1
In the Enterprise view, select a controller.
2
In the menu bar, select
Actions
, select
NCQ
, then click
Enable
or
Disable
.
Disabling Statistics Logging on a Controller
If you enabled statistics logging when you first logged in (see
page 30
), Adaptec Storage
Manager gathers IO and usage statistics for all controllers on a system. If you prefer not to
gather statistics for a controller, you can disable statistics logging on that controller.
To disable statistics logging on a controller:
1
In the Enterprise view, select a controller.
2
In the menu bar, select
Actions
, select
Advanced Statistics
, then click
Disable
.
Re-Enabling Statistics Logging
To re-enable statistics logging, repeat steps
1
and
2
in
Disabling Statistics Logging on a
Controller
, selecting
Enable
in
Step 2
.