Lenovo ThinkServer RD230, Software User'S Manual

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10-4 Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations
You can monitor the progress of the rebuild in the Group Show
Progress window by selecting
Group Operations->Show Progress .
If the drive cannot be rebuilt, an error message appears. Continue
with the next step.
3. Shut down the system, disconnect the power cord, and open the
computer case.
4. Replace the failed drive with a new drive of equal capacity.
5. Close the computer case, reconnect the power cord, and restart the
computer.
6. Restart the MegaRAID Storage Manager software.
When the new drive spins up, the drive icon changes back to normal
status, and the rebuild process begins automatically. You can monitor
the progress of the rebuild in the Group Show Progress window by
selecting
Group Operations->Show Progress .
10.5 Making a Drive Offline or Missing
If a drive is currently part of a redundant configuration and you want to
use it in another configuration, you can use MegaRAID Storage Manager
commands to remove the drive from the first configuration. When you do
this,
all data on that drive is lost .
To remove the drive from the configuration without harming the data on
the virtual drive, follow these steps:
1. In the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, right-
click the icon of a drive in a redundant virtual drive.
2. Select Make drive offline from the pop-up menu. The drive status
changes to Offline.
3. Right-click the drive icon again, and select Mark physical disk as
missing .
4. Select File->Rescan . The drive status changes to Unconfigured
Good. At this point, the data on this drive is no longer valid.
5. If necessary, create a hot spare drive for the virtual drive from which
you have removed the drive. (See
Section 8.3, “Adding Hot Spare
Drives.” )