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Using IBM ServeRAID 131
5. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
6. Click Exit; then, press Enter.
Viewing the controller status
When you select View Controller Status from the Main Menu, the following
information appears on the screen:
• All physical drives and their states
• Unattended shows the current state of the Unattended mode.
— When this option is set to Off, you can choose the recovery method when a
ServeRAID controller startup error occurs.
— When this option is set to On, the ServeRAID controller chooses the recovery
method when a startup error occurs.
• Read Ahead shows the current state of the read-ahead cache mode.
• BootCD shows the current state of the Bootable CD-ROM function. (Refer to
“Setting the Bootable CD-ROM feature” on page 132.)
• CompMode shows the current BIOS compatibility mode. On indicates 8 gigabyte
(GB) Extended; Off indicated 2 gigabyte (GB) Limited.
• Clustered shows the current state for clustering.
• BBWC shows the cache size of the battery-backup write cache, if it is installed (8 =
8 MB or 32 = 32 MB) or No if there is a no battery-backup write cache installed.
• Boot Blk shows the version number of the startable microcode (or firmware)
loaded for the ServeRAID controller.
• Code Blk shows the current version number of the microcode (or firmware)
loaded for the ServeRAID controller.
• Rebuild Rate shows the current speed setting for rebuilds: High, Medium, or
Low.
• Number of Defunct drives shows the current number of Defunct physical drives.
• Number of Offline drives shows the current number of Offline logical drives.
• Number of Critical drives shows the current number of Critical logical drives.
• Config. Updates shows the number of times that the configuration has been
changed since it has been initialized. When you initialize the configuration, the
Config. Update resets to zero.
• Bad Stripe, Locked Stripe, or Blocked Drive identifies the logical drives that are
affected.
— Bad Stripe Drives indicates logical drives that has inaccessible areas.
— Locked Stripe Drives is a reserved field.
— Blocked Drives indicates the logical drives that are blocked. You must
unblock a blocked drive before you can use it. See “Logical drive state
descriptions” on page 126 for more information.
Viewing the configuration
You can select View Configuration from the Main Menu to display the number of
each logical drive, the size, RAID level, state, stripe-unit size, write policy, read-ahead
status, and creation date for each logical drive.