Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 9 User’s Guide H330, H730, and H830

Viewing physical disk properties

1. Enter the Dell PERC 9 Configuration Utility. See Navigating to PERC 9 Configuration Utility.
2. Click Physical Disk Management.
   All the physical disks associated with the RAID controller are displayed.
3. To view the properties, click on the physical disk. You can view the following properties of the physical disk:

   Option	Description
   Operation	Displays the lists of operations you can perform on the selected physical disk. The options are: Blink Unblink Force Offline
   Physical Disk ID	Indicates the unique identifier of the physical disk.
   Status	Indicates the status of the physical disk.
   Size	Indicates the size of the physical disk.
   Type	Indicates the type of the physical disk.
   Model	Indicates the model of the physical disk.
   Part Number	Indicates the part number of the physical disk.
   Serial Number	Indicates the serial of the physical disk.
   Manufacturing Date	Indicates the date on which the physical disk has been manufactured
   Associated Virtual Disks	Displays the virtual disks associated with the physical disk.

4. Click Advanced....
   The additional advanced properties of the physical disk is displayed.

   NOTE: When you select the Patrol Read option in the Advanced... section, an error message may be displayed. The error message can be safely ignored.