.........................Contents


1. Disk Management for the SPARCstorage Array 1
.....Description of Fast Write 1
.....Reserving and Releasing Disk Drives 3
.....Installing the Software 3
2. Using the Standard SPARCstorage Array Software 5
.....Reserving and Releasing Drives 5
...........Reserving and Releasing All Drives in a SPARCstorage Array 6
...........Reserving and Releasing Single Disks 6
.....Setting Fast Writes 7
...........Setting Fast Writes at the Controller Level 8
...........Setting Fast Writes at the Drive Level 8
.....Spinning Up and Spinning Down Disk Drives 9
...........Spinning Up and Spinning Down All Drives in an Array 9
...........Spinning Up and Spinning Down All Drives in a Disk Tray 9
...........Spinning Up and Spinning Down Individual Disk Drives 10
.....Displaying Properties of a SPARCstorage Array 11
.....Displaying Properties of a SPARCstorage Array Disk 13
.....Displaying Activity Levels on SPARCstorage Array Disks 14
3. Performing Service-Related Software Tasks 15


Flushing or Purging Outstanding Writes from NVRAM 15
......Flushing Outstanding Writes from NVRAM to a Disk Drive 16
......Purging Writes from NVRAM 16
When Powering Down the SPARCstorage Array 17
......Preliminary Software Tasks 17
......Stopping All Drives in the SPARCstorage Array 17
When Replacing a Physical Disk Drive in the SPARCstorage Array 18
......Before Replacing a Drive 18
......After Replacing a Drive 19
When Replacing a Drive Tray in the SPARCstorage Array 19
......Before Replacing a Drive Tray 19
......After Replacing a Drive Tray 20
When Replacing an Array Controller 20
......Before Replacing an Array Controller 21
......After Replacing an Array Controller 21
When Replacing All Other FRUs in the SPARCstorage Array 22
......Preliminary Software Tasks 23
......Stopping All Drives in the SPARCstorage Array 23