NOTE: If the initialize process is running in the background, auto or manual
rebuild will be delayed until the initialization is completed.
For more information about spares and auto rebuild, please see Assigning a
Global Hot- Spare, Assigning a Dedicated Hot-Spare while Creating an Array,
and Assigning a Dedicated Hot-Spare after Creating an Array in the Reference
section, Chapter 4
.
NOTE: RAID 6 and RAID 60: A fault tolerance of up to two drives is allowed
for RAID 6 and RAID 60. However, please note that if two drives fail, the
rebuild will need to be completed on one drive before it can begin the rebuild
on the second drive. In that case, you need to select only one replacement drive
at a time.
If there is only one available drive in the enclosure, you can insert another
drive in the enclosure after the rebuild has completed on the first drive.
Manual Rebuild
This section describes how to manually start a rebuild by choosing the option:
Select a replacement drive (please select only one drive).
There are a couple of conditions that could cause a drive to fail. Here is a brief
summary using a manual rebuild in both cases.
• A member drive of an array is mistakenly removed from the
drive slot.
If you inadvertently pulled the wrong drive from the drive slot and
the array is active, it will be displayed in the enclosure as a gray drive
slot as a "missing drive." If you quickly reinsert the same drive in the
same slot, it will be marked as a "failed drive," noted with the circled
X and is no longer part of any array. This drive is not damaged and it
is okay to start a manual rebuild, if you are certain about its
reliability.
First, right-click on the marked failed drive and then click on Clear
Failed Status (see
). Next, you can start a manual rebuild by
clicking on the Array tab in the menu bar and click on Rebuild Array
(see
). When you see the rebuild screen, click the button
Select a replacement drive, (see
NOTE: Once a drive has failed, it no longer is part of any array. Notice that the
gray failed drive is not part of the blue highlighted drives, which indicate that
they belong to an array set (see
). Right-click on the failed drive to
access the drop menu.
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