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


1. Disk Management for the SPARCstorage Array 7
.....Description of Fast Write 7
.....Reserving and Releasing Disk Drives 9
.....Installing the Software 9
2. Using the Standard SPARCstorage Array Software 11
.....Reserving and Releasing Drives 11
...........Reserving and Releasing All Drives in a SPARCstorage Array 12
...........Reserving and Releasing Single Disks 12
.....Setting Fast Writes 13
...........Setting Fast Writes at the Controller Level 14
...........Setting Fast Writes at the Drive Level 14
.....Spinning Up and Spinning Down Disk Drives 15
...........Spinning Up and Spinning Down All Drives in an Array 15
...........Spinning Up and Spinning Down All Drives in a Disk Tray 15
...........Spinning Up and Spinning Down Individual Disk Drives 16
.....Displaying Properties of a SPARCstorage Array 17
.....Displaying Properties of a SPARCstorage Array Disk 19
.....Displaying Activity Levels on SPARCstorage Array Disks 20
3. Performing Service-Related Software Tasks 21


Flushing or Purging Outstanding Writes from NVRAM 21
......Flushing Outstanding Writes from NVRAM to a Disk Drive 22
......Purging Writes from NVRAM 22
When Powering Down the SPARCstorage Array 23
......Preliminary Software Tasks 23
......Stopping All Drives in the SPARCstorage Array 23
When Replacing a Physical Disk Drive in the SPARCstorage Array 24
......Before Replacing a Drive 24
......After Replacing a Drive 25
When Replacing a Drive Tray in the SPARCstorage Array 25
......Before Replacing a Drive Tray 25
......After Replacing a Drive Tray 26
When Replacing an Array Controller 26
......Before Replacing an Array Controller 27
......After Replacing an Array Controller 27
When Replacing All Other FRUs in the SPARCstorage Array 28
......Preliminary Software Tasks 29
......Stopping All Drives in the SPARCstorage Array 29