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Initializing physical drives: Use this action to erase the metadata for a ready
physical drive. The metadata includes all logical drive definition data.
To initialize a physical drive:
1. In the Physical devices view, click
(physical drive).
2. Right-click Initialize.
3. Click Yes to initialize the drive.
Note:
To check the progress of the operation, switch to text view.
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Manually
rebuilding a defunct drive: Use this action to rebuild a critical logical drive
when a physical drive in the array is defunct. Normally, the controller rebuilds a
logical drive when it detects the removal and reinsertion of a drive that is part of
an array. Use this operation to force the rebuild to begin immediately, without
physically removing and replacing the disk drive.
Note: The controllers can rebuild RAID level-1, level-1E, level-5, level-5E,
level-5EE, level-10, level-1E0, and level-50 logical drives. They cannot,
however, rebuild RAID level-0 logical drives because RAID level-0 is not
redundant.
Complete the following steps to manually rebuild a defunct drive:
1. In the Physical devices view, click
(defunct physical drive).
2. Right-click Rebuild drive.
3. Click Yes to confirm.
Note:
During the rebuild operation, the defunct drive enters the rebuild state
and the logical drive remains critical until the rebuild operation is
completed.
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v Rebuilding a defunct drive (concepts)
v Recovering from defunct drives
Removing
a defunct drive:
Note: This action is not supported on network storage controllers. It is supported
on the integrated RAID controller in bootable-CD mode only.
You can use this action only on defunct physical drives that are not part of any
array. Although the ServeRAID software implicitly removes defunct drives from
the configuration, this action is useful if you want to remove a defunct drive from
the Physical devices view so you can view an accurate configuration.
1. In the Physical devices view, click
(defunct physical drive).
2. Right-click Remove defunct drive. The ServeRAID Manager removes the
defunct drive from the configuration.
Setting
a drive state to online:
Note: This action is not supported on the integrated RAID controller.
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