Section 10: Hard Disk Caching98 AXIS StorPoint CD E100 User’s ManualVerifying the Hard DiskThe caching facility requires at least one hard disk to be connected to the SCSIbus or the IDE bus. The StorPoint CD will automatically format hard disks anduse them for hard disk caching. You can connect up to six or seven hard disks toyour StorPoint CD depending on model.Follow these steps to verify that a valid hard disk is connected to your StorPointCD:1. Start your Web browser and enter the name or IP address of the StorPointCD in the location/address field.2. Click admin. You will be prompted for the Server username and password. Bydefault, this is set to root and pass. To change the Server password, see“Server Password ” on page 24.3. On the This StorPoint page, click the hard disk icon to verify that theStorPoint CD has detected a hard disk that can be used for hard disk caching.4. Information about the hard disk will be displayed to the right.If the hard disk has been used before and includes a partition table it needsto be formatted before it can be used for hard disk caching. Click Format todo that. The formatting will remove all the information currently cached onthe hard disk. This is not something you would normally want to do.
