Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 10 User’s Guide PERC H345, H740P, H745, and H840 Series Controllers

Viewing physical disk properties

1. Enter the Dell PERC 10 Configuration Utility. See Navigating to Dell PERC 10 configuration utility.
2. Click Main Menu > Physical Disk Management.
   All the physical disks associated with the RAID controller are displayed.
3. To view the properties, click on the physical disk. The following properties can be viewed on the physical disk:

   Table 1. Physical disk propertiesThe following table provides physical disk properties.

   Option	Description
   Operation	List of operations you can perform on the selected physical disk. The options are: Blink Unblink Force Offline Replace Member Erase Options Global and Dedicated hotspare Convert to RAID Capable Convert to Non-RAID Disk
   Device ID	Unique identifier of the physical disk.
   Connection	Number of paths and how wide the paths are to the physical disk. Indicated if a physical disk is in a multipath configuration for H745P MX and H840.
   Backplane ID	Backplane ID in which the physical disk is located in for H345, H740P, H740 mini, H745, H745P MX, and H840.
   Enclosure position	The enclosure in which the physical disk is located for H840.
   Chassis slot value	The chassis slot value of the chassis slot in which the physical disk is located when the physical disk is in a MX 5016s storage sled for the controller H745P MX.
   Slot number	The drive bay in which the physical disk is located for the corresponding backplane or enclosure to which the controller is connected.
   Status	Status of the physical disk.
   Size	Size of the physical disk.
   Type	Type of the physical disk.
   Model	Model of the physical disk.
   Part number	Part number of the physical disk.
   Serial number	Serial of the physical disk.
   Manufacturing date	Date on which the physical disk has been manufactured.
   Associated virtual disks	Virtual disks associated with the physical disk.

4. Click Advanced....
   You can view the following additional properties of the physical disk:

   Table 2. Advanced physical disk propertiesThe following table provides advanced physical disk properties.

   Option	Description
   Logical sector size	Logical sector size of the selected physical disk.
   Physical sector size	Physical sector size of the selected physical disk.
   SMART status	SMART status of a physical disk.
   Revision	Firmware version of the physical disk.
   SAS address	SAS address of the physical disk.
   Physical disk power state	Power condition (On or Power Save) of the physical disk.
   Disk cache settings	Disk cache settings. NOTE:Disk cache for SATA Gen3 drives is disabled by default.
   Hard disk drive RPM	RPM of the hard drive.
   Available space	Available size of the physical disk.
   Used space	Configured space of the physical disk.
   Disk protocol	Type of hard disk used.
   Device speed	Speed of the physical disk.
   Negotiated link speed	Negotiated link speed of the device.
   Encryption capable	Encryption capability of the physical disk.
   Secured	Security status of the physical disk.
   Cryptographic erase capable	Cryptographic erase capability of the physical disk.

   NOTE:When you select the Patrol Read option in the Advanced... section, an error message may be displayed. The error message can be safely ignored.