Locating A Drive; Making A Drive Unconfigured Bad, Unconfigured Good, Or Jbod - Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 User Manual

12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
Figure 104 Select Drive Operations Menu
Start Locate and Stop Locate are the available options for any selected drive. The other menu options vary based on
the status of the drive, which can be Online, Offline, JBOD, Unconfigured Good, Unconfigured Bad, Global Hot
Spare, and Dedicated Hot Spare.
The following sections describe the available drive operations.
5.6.1.1

Locating a Drive

Perform these steps to locate a physical drive by flashing its LED.
1. Open the pop-up drive operations menu, highlight Start Locate, and press Enter.
2. Highlight Go, which appears beneath Operation, and press Enter.
A success message appears.
3. Highlight OK on the success message and press Enter.
The LED on the selected drive starts flashing, if the drive firmware supports this feature.
4. Observe the location of the drive with the flashing LED.
5. To stop the LED from flashing, highlight Stop Locate on the popup menu and press Enter.
6. Highlight Go, which appears beneath Operation, and press Enter.
A success message appears.
7. Highlight OK on the success message and press Enter, to exit the message dialog.
5.6.1.2

Making a Drive Unconfigured Bad, Unconfigured Good, or JBOD

When you force a drive offline, it enters the Unconfigured Bad state.
When you power down a controller and insert a new physical drive, if the inserted drive does not contain valid DDF
metadata, the drive status is Just a Bunch of Drives (JBOD) when you power the system again. A new drive in the JBOD
NOTE The drive operations run on the currently selected drive. To run an
operation on a different drive, press Esc to return to the Drive
Selection menu, highlight the drive you want to select, press Enter to
select it, and return to this dialog.
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Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility
Managing Physical Drives