Monitoring Drives

When the MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running, you can see the status of all the drives in the left panel. If a drive is operating normally, the icon looks like this: . If a drive has failed, a small red circle appears to the right of the icon.

To display the complete drive information, click on a drive icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu. The drive properties appear in the right panel as shown in the following figure. The information on this tab is self-explanatory. There are no user-selectable properties for physical devices. Icons for other storage devices, such as CD-ROM drives and DAT drives, can also appear in the left panel.

Figure 88. Drive Properties

The Power Status property displays the status On when a drive is spun up and displays the status Powersave when a drive is spun down. Note that SSD drives and other drives that never spin down still show On.

If the drives are in a disk enclosure, you can identify which drive is represented by a disk icon on the left. To do this, follow these steps:

1.	Click the drive icon in the left panel.

2.	Select Go To > Physical Drive > Start Locating Drive tab in the right panel.

The LED on the drive in the enclosure starts blinking to show its location.

NOTE  LEDs on drives that are global hot spares do not blink.

3.	To stop the drive light on the enclosure from blinking, select Go To > Physical Drive > Stop Locating Drive.