Promise Technology Pegasus32 R4, Product Manual

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Managing the Pegasus32 Pegasus32 Product Manual
3. Make changes as needed:
• Enter, change, or delete the alias in the Alias field.
• Choose Unconfigured or PassThru Configuration.
Unconfigured drives are not visible to your computer. Use them to make disk arrays.
PassThru drives are visible to your computer and are configured as individual drives. They
cannot be used to make a disk array.
4. Click the Save button.
5. Click the X icon to close the settings panel.
Clearing a Stale or a PFA Condition
Stale
– The physical drive contains obsolete disk array information.
PFA – The physical drive has errors resulting in a prediction of failure.
Be sure you have first corrected the condition by a physical drive replacement, rebuild operation, etc.
Then clear the condition.
To clear a Stale or a PFA condition:
1. Click the Physical Drive icon.
2. Mouse-over the physical drive you want then click the
Clear
button.
3. Click the Confirm button.
If the physical drive has both a Stale condition and a PFA condition, the first click removes the Stale
condition. Click the
Clear
button a second time to remove the PFA condition.
Clear a stale drive or PFA condition