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Firmware Functionality Specifications
Bad Block Handling in
A method for handling low quality drives. The operation is performed
degraded mode
on both the logical drive in degraded mode or those that are being
rebuilt. If bad blocks should be encountered during Rebuild, Add
Drive, Host Write, or Regenerate Parity operation, the controller will
first attempt to reconstruct affected data and those irrecoverable bad
blocks are stated as bad and the controller return to host.
Users have the option to abandon data on the unrecoverable sectors
to continue rebuild in a degraded mode.
Low quality drive handling comes with transparent resetting of hung
hard drives.
Transparent reset of hung
Supported
HDDs
Auto cache flush on critical
When critical conditions occur, e.g., component failure, or BBU under
conditions
charge, cached data will be flushed and the write policy will be
changed to write-through mode.
(caching mode dynamic
Configurable “Trigger Events” for Write-through/Write-Back Dynamic
switch)
Switch.
RAID parity update tracking
Yes, to avoid write holes.
and recovery
Host-side Ordered Tag
Supports write commands with embedded Ordered Tags.
support
Drive identification (flash
Supported.
Force a drive to light on its activity indicator for users to
drive function)
visually recognize its position in a configuration consisting of
numerous disk drives.
Drive information listing
Supported.
Drive vendor name, model number, firmware revision,
capacity (blocks), serial number, narrow/wide and current sync. speed
Drive read/write test
Supported
Configuration on disks
Will be supported in next release. The logical drive information is
(Drive Roaming)
recorded on drive media. The logical drives can still be accessed if
using different Galaxy RAID controllers/subsystems, e.g., drives
removed and installed in a different subsystem.
Save/ restore NVRAM to /
Supported. Save all the settings stored in the controller NVRAM to
from disks
the logical drive members.
Now this feature comes with an option whether to restore the
previously saved password in case an administrator changed the
password some time before or simply forgets the previous password.
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