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creating a virtual drive from that array that includes a functional RAID level. To create a
virtual drive and present it to the host operating system, the RAID firmware typically
follows these steps:
1. One or more physical drives are selected and associated as an array.
2. One or more arrays are associated and given a RAID level. This process creates a
virtual drive and provides an option to initialize the virtual drive.
3. The RAID firmware presents the virtual drive to the operating system.
RAID Physical Drive Status
Table 12. RAID Physical Drive Status
Drive State Code Description
Unconfigured Good Unconfigured Good The drive is functioning normally, but is not part of a
configured virtual drive and is not a hot spare.
Online ONLN The drive is online, is part of a configured
virtual drive, and is functioning normally.
Hot Spare HOTSP A physical drive that is configured as a hot spare.
Failed FAILED A physical drive that was originally configured as
Online or Hot Spare, but on which the firmware
detects an unrecoverable error.
Rebuilding REBUILD A physical drive to which data is being written to
restore full redundancy for a virtual drive.
Unconfigured Bad Unconfigured Bad A physical drive on which the firmware detects an
unrecoverable error; the physical drive was Uncon-
figured Good or the physical drive could not be
initialized.
Missing Missing A physical drive that was online, but which has been
removed from its location.
Offline Offline A physical drive that is part of a virtual drive but
which has invalid data as far as the RAID configura-
tion is concerned.
None None A physical drive with an unsupported flag set. An
Unconfigured Good or Offline physical drive that has
completed the 'prepare for removal' operation.