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Identifying Disk Drives, Enter, Identify Drive, Disk Utilities

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Appendix C: Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility ● 92 4 Select the disk drive you want, then press Enter. 5 Select Identify Drive, then press Enter. 6 When you have finished locating your disk drive, press any key to stop the blinking. Identifying Disk Drives You can identify disk drives by viewing the list of disk drives on your system. Only physical drives that display during POST are shown. To identify a disk drive: 1 Start the ARC utility (see page 84). 2 Select the controller you want, then press Enter. 3 Select Disk Utilities. The Disk Utilities view will provide you with the following information: Location CN1=DEV1 Box0=Slot0 Exp0=phy0 Model Rev# The manufacturer The revision information. number of the disk drive. Speed Size The speed of the The size of the disk drive. disk drive. The location information of a disk drive is determined by three types of connections: ● Direct attached drives-The connection is determined by the cable connected to a device, for example CN1 (connector 1) is connected to DEV1 (device 1). For more information, see Direct-attach Connections on page 71. ● Storage Enclosure Processor (SEP) managed devices-The connection is determined by an active backplane. Box0 (enclosure 0) is connected to slot0 (disk drive slot 0 in the enclosure). For more information, see Backplane Connections on page 71. ● Expanders-The connections is determined by an expander. Exp0 (expander 0) is connected to phy0 (phy 0 within a connector). For more information, see SAS Expander Connections on page 72. Note: Devices other than disk drives (CDROM, tape drives, etc...) are listed in order after your system disk drives.

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Appendix C: Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
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4
Select the disk drive you want, then press
Enter
.
5
Select
Identify Drive
, then press
Enter
.
6
When you have finished locating your disk drive, press any key
to stop the blinking.
Identifying Disk Drives
You can identify disk drives by viewing the list of disk drives on your system. Only physical
drives that display during POST are shown.
To identify a disk drive:
1
Start the ARC utility (see
page 84
).
2
Select the controller you want, then press
Enter
.
3
Select
Disk Utilities
.
The Disk Utilities view will provide you with the following information:
The location information of a disk drive is determined by three types of connections:
●
Direct attached drives
—The connection is determined by the cable connected to a device,
for example CN1 (connector 1) is connected to DEV1 (device 1). For more information, see
Direct-attach Connections
on page 71
.
●
Storage Enclosure Processor (SEP) managed devices
—The connection is determined by an
active backplane. Box0 (enclosure 0) is connected to slot0 (disk drive slot 0 in the
enclosure). For more information, see
Backplane Connections
on page 71
.
●
Expanders
—The connections is determined by an expander. Exp0 (expander 0) is
connected to phy0 (phy 0 within a connector). For more information, see
SAS Expander
Connections
on page 72
.
Note:
Devices other than disk drives (CDROM, tape drives, etc...) are listed in order after your
system disk drives.
Location
Model
Rev#
Speed
Size
CN1=DEV1
Box0=Slot0
Exp0=phy0
The manufacturer
information.
The revision
number of the
disk drive.
The speed of the
disk drive.
The size of the
disk drive.