Changing the Media Scan Settings

Use the Change Media Scan Settings option to set the settings for a single or for multiple logical drives on a .


Note:

You cannot enable background media scans on a logical drive comprised of Solid State Disk (SSD) disk drives.

  1. Select the Logical tab.
  2. Select any logical drive.
  3. Select Logical Drive >> Change >> Media Scan Settings .
  4. Perform one of these actions depending on whether you want to enable or disable media scans:
  5. To enable media scans, perform these steps:
    1. Deselect the Suspend media scan check box.
    2. To specify the duration (in days) of the media scan, select a number in the Duration box.The media scan duration specifies the number of days over which the media scan should run on the eligible logical drives.


      Note:

      The uses the duration period, with its knowledge of which logical drives must be scanned, to determine a constant rate at which to perform media scan activities. This rate is maintained regardless of I/O activity.

    3. To disable media scans on an individual logical drive, select the logical drive in the Select logical drives to scan table in the center of the dialog, deselect the Scan selected logical drives check box, and click OK. To change the media scan setting for additional logical drives, go to step 2.
    4. To enable media scans on an individual logical drive, select the logical drive in the Select logical drives to scan table in the center of the dialog, select the Scan selected logical drives check box, select either the With redundancy radio button or the Without redundancy radio button, and click OK. To change the media scan setting for additional logical drives, go to step 2.


      Note:

      A redundancy check scans the blocks in a logical drive, a logical drive, or a logical drive and checks the redundancy information for each block. A redundancy check compares data blocks on mirrored disk drives. logical drives have no data redundancy.

  6. To disable media scans, perform these steps:
    1. Select the Suspend media scan check box.
    2. Click OK.

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