
Maintenance of RAID System
This chapter describes the maintenance of a RAID System using the Universal RAID Utility.
Providing Patrol Read for Physical Devices
The Patrol Read function reads data saved in all Physical Devices in a RAID System entirely to check whether a read
error occurs or not regularly in the background. The Patrol Read is effective to find failures including Physical Device
medium error early. Be sure to execute Patrol Read for a RAID Controller if it supports the Patrol Read.
The Universal RAID Utility provides the function of indicating whether Patrol Read is executed or not and the function of
changing the Patrol Read Priority.
Some RAID Controller may not support the Patrol Read function. In such environment, [Patrol
Read] and [Patrol Read Priority] are not displayed on RAID Viewer and raidcmd, and the
“optctrl” command will fail.
Setting Whether Patrol Read Is Executed or Not
Whether Patrol Read is executed or not should be set in RAID Controllers. The procedure of setting whether
Patrol Read is executed or not is described below.
Changing the setting whether Patrol Read is executed or not is available only in the Advanced
Mode.
RAID Viewer
Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer. Click a RAID Controller on the Tree View. Then click [Properties] on the [File] menu.
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Step 2
Click the [Options] tab in the [RAID
Controller Properties] dialog box. Change the value of
[Patrol Read] to [Enable] or [Disable]. Click [OK] or
[Apply].
raidcmd
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ery Status : Normal
Rebuild Priority : Middle
Consistency Check Priority : Low
Patrol Read : Enable
Patrol Read Priority : Low
Buzzer Setting : Disable
HDD Power Saving(Hot Spare): Enable
Device Standby Time : 30 minutes
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Cache Size : 1,024MB
Premium Feature : CacheCade
Model : LSI MegaRAID SAS 9267-8i
Firmware Version : 3.140.05-1294
> raidcmd optctrl -c=1 -pr=enable
> raidcmd property -tg=rc -c=1
RAID Controller #1
ID : 0
Vendor : LSI Corporation
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Step 1 Execute "optctrl" command with -pr option
and the following parameters.
-c : Number of the RAID Controller for which whether Patrol
Read is executed or not is set
-pr : Specify "enable" to allow Patrol Read / Specify
"disable" not to allow Patrol Read.
Step 2 Check the execution result by using
"property" command. The following parameter of RAID
Controller is changed if the settings has been
changed successfully.
[Patrol Read] : "enable" to allow Patrol Read
"disable" not to allow Patrol Read
Ex. Browse the property of the RAID Controller 1.
raidcmd property -tg=rc -c=1
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