Understanding Drive States; Physical Drive State Descriptions; Logical Drive State Descriptions - IBM Netfinity ServeRAID-3H Installation And User Manual

5. Restart the Manager for this setting to take effect.
Alarm settings: All Warning and Error events cause an audible alarm to sound every five minutes,
notifying you of the event. You can adjust the alarm interval in the Alarm settings window.
1. Click the Alarm settings tab.
2. Click the check box to enable or disable the repeating alarm.
Note: If you disable the alarm, you will not hear an audible alarm when you receive problem events.
3. If you have enabled the alarm, you can adjust the time interval (in seconds) you want between each
alarm. The default is 300 seconds (that is, 5 minutes).
4. If you have enabled the alarm, you can adjust the length of time (in beeps) you want the alarm to
continue. The default is 3 beeps.
5. Click OK.
6. Restart the Manager for these settings to take effect.
Silencing the repeating alarm: Silence the repeating alarm turns off the alarm for the current failure
without disabling the feature. To silence the alarm, click

Understanding drive states

This section provides descriptions of the physical and logical drive states.

Physical drive state descriptions

The following table provides descriptions of the valid physical drive states.
Drive State
Defunct
Hot Spare
Online
Rebuilding
Ready
Standby Hot Spare

Logical drive state descriptions

The following table provides descriptions of the valid logical drive states.
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Meaning
A physical drive in the Online, Hot-Spare, or Rebuild state has become defunct. It does
not respond to commands, which means that the ServeRAID controller cannot
communicate properly with the drive.
If a physical drive has become defunct, refer to "Rebuilding a defunct drive" on
page 105.
A Hot-Spare drive is a physical drive that is defined for automatic use when a similar
drive fails.
The drive is Online. It is functioning properly and is part of an array.
The drive is being rebuilt.
For more information on rebuilding a drive, refer to "Rebuilding a defunct drive" on
page 105.
The ServeRAID controller recognizes a Ready drive as being available for definition.
A Standby Hot Spare is a Hot-Spare drive that the ServeRAID controller has spun down.
If an Online drive becomes Defunct and no suitable Hot-Spare drive is available, a
Standby Hot-Spare drive of the appropriate size automatically spins up, and enters the
Rebuild state.
on the tool bar.