Select a SAS host bus adapter entry from the Mass Storage list to display a submenu containing
separate entries for HBA Information and SAS devices connected to the HBA. The following items
may be displayed depending on the type of HBA:
Serial Number displays the serial number assigned to the physical drive. This value
is based on the serial number as returned by the SCSI inquiry command, but may have been shortened due to space
limitations. Use this item for identification purposes.
Size displays the size of the physical drive. A megabyte (MB) is 1,048,576 bytes,
a gigabyte (GB) is 1,073,741,824 bytes, and a terabyte (TB) is a thousand gigabytes.
Many hardware manufacturers use a megabyte value of 1,000,000 instead of 1,048,576. This may result in
discrepancies between the manufacturer's stated size and the size reported by this application.
After a failed physical drive has been replaced, the physical drive must have its
data rebuilt. This value is the percent complete of the rebuild. When the value reaches 100,
the rebuilding process is complete. The array continues to operate in interim recovery
mode while the disk is rebuilding. This value is only valid if the Logical Drive Status is
rebuilding.
If the value cannot be determined or a rebuild is not active, the value is set to
4,294,967,295.
Raid Level displays the raid configuration of the logical
drive. The possible values are:
RAID 0 - fault tolerance is not enabled. If a
physical drive reports an error, the data cannot be recovered.
RAID 1 - Mirroring is the highest level of fault
tolerance. It is the only method offering fault tolerance protection if no more
than two physical drives are selected. Drive mirroring creates fault tolerance by
storing duplicate data on two drives. There must be an even number of drives. This
is the most costly fault tolerance method because it requires 50 percent of the drive
capacity to store the redundant data.
Other - The agent cannot determine the RAID level
of this logical drive.
Size displays the size of the physical drive. A megabyte (MB) is 1,048,576 bytes,
a gigabyte (GB) is 1,073,741,824 bytes, and a terabyte (TB) is a thousand gigabytes.
Many hardware manufacturers use a megabyte value of 1,000,000 instead of 1,048,576. This may result in
discrepancies between the manufacturer's stated size and the size reported by this application.
Stripe Size displays the size of a logical drive stripe or group of data
written to a physical drive in kilobytes. It may be zero in some raid configurations.
Physical Drive IDs lists the physical drive ID's associated with this
logical drive. Each 4 octets of the string can be used as an index (cpqSasPhyDrvIndex) into the SAS
physical drive table. These 4 octets are repeated for each drive in the list. For n disk drives in
the list, the string is 4 * n octets long.
Spare Drive IDs lists the spare drive ID's associated with this logical
drive. Each 4 octets of the string can be used as an index (cpqSasPhyDrvIndex) into the SAS
physical drive table. These 4 octets are repeated for each drive in the list. For n disk drives
in the list, the string is 4 * n octets long.
Serial Number displays the serial number assigned to the
tape drive. This value is based on the serial number as returned by the device, but may
have been shortened due to space limitations. Use this item for identification purposes.
Firmware Revision displays the firmware revision level of the SAS tape drive.
Drive manufacturers sometimes use the number 1,000,000 as a megabyte when giving drive capacities
so this value may differ from the advertised size of a drive.