Configuring a logical drive..................................................................................................46
Deleting a logical drive......................................................................................................48
Clearing the logical drive configuration................................................................................50
Adding a spare disk drive...................................................................................................50
Deleting a spare disk drive..................................................................................................50
Changing the rebuild priority of a logical drive......................................................................51
Specifying the percentage of cache used for read caching......................................................51
Auto-fail missing disks at boot.............................................................................................51
Creating multiple logical drives in an array...........................................................................51
Performing RAID level migration...........................................................................................51
Performing stripe size migration...........................................................................................52
Extending the capacity of a logical drive..............................................................................52
Expanding the capacity of an array.....................................................................................52
Changing the expand priority..............................................................................................52
Creating a logical drive......................................................................................................53
Deleting a logical drive......................................................................................................54
Prerequisites......................................................................................................................55
Moving disks to a different location or controller on the same server.........................................56
Moving disks to a controller on a different server...................................................................57
HP Support Tools Manager......................................................................................................59
Event Monitoring Service.........................................................................................................59
Offline Diagnostics Environment................................................................................................59
PCI Error Recovery..................................................................................................................59
The sautil command................................................................................................................60
Logical drive state definitions..........................................................................................75
Physical disk state definitions..........................................................................................76
The sautil <device_file> scan command................................................................................77
The sautil <device_file> accept_media_xchg <logical_drive_number> command........................77
The sautil <device_file> set_transfer_rate <rate> command......................................................78
The sautil <device_file> run_startup_script command..............................................................78
Determining the Smart Array series controller device file..........................................................78
Determining the Smart Array series controller firmware version.................................................78
Updating the Smart Array controller firmware online...............................................................79
Updating physical disk firmware online.....................................................................................80
Checking and updating SAS storage enclosure firmware online....................................................82
Determining the Smart Array controller device file..................................................................82
Determining the physical drive ID and firmware version for SAS storage enclosures.....................82
Updating SAS storage enclosure firmware.............................................................................98
5 Support and other resources....................................................................100
A Physical disk installation and replacement.................................................102
Overview............................................................................................................................102
SAS physical disk failure indicators (for internal disks connected to Smart Array controllers)............102
Other ways to identify a failed physical disk............................................................................103
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