Adding A Hot-Spare Drive; Removing A Hot-Spare Drive; Rebuilding A Drive; Auto Rebuild And Auto Resume - Intel SC5650BCDP Software User's Manual

Adding a Hot-spare Drive

To add a hot-spare drive to an existing configuration, follow these steps:

Removing a Hot-spare Drive

To remove a hot-spare drive, follow these steps:

Rebuilding a Drive

The Intel
option that rebuilds a failed array due to an individual failed drive in a RAID 1 or 10 array.
RAID 0 drives are not redundant and cannot be rebuilt. You can also rebuild a good drive (not
physically failed) using the existing configuration data.
To rebuild a drive:

Auto Rebuild and Auto Resume

To ensure data protection, enable Auto Rebuild and Auto Resume so that drives are
automatically re-created to maintain redundancy.
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Intel RAID Software User's Guide
1. Select Objects from the Main Menu.
2. Select Physical Drive. A list of physical drives is displayed.
3. Select an unused drive from the list, and select Make Hot Spare. The screen changes to
indicate HOTSP.
1. Select Objects from the Main Menu.
2. Select Physical Drive. A list of physical drives is displayed.
3. Select the disk that displays HOTSP, press the <Enter> key.
4. Select Force Offline and press the <Enter> key. The status of the drive changes to
READY. The drive can be used in another array.
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Embedded Server RAID BIOS Configuration utility includes a manual rebuild
1. Select Rebuild from the Main Menu. The failed drives show the status FAIL.
2. Press the arrow keys to highlight the physical drive that you want to rebuild. Press the
space bar to select the drive.
3. Press the <F10> key and select Y to confirm. As the rebuild process begins, the drive
indicator shows REBLD.
4. When the rebuild is complete, press any key to continue.
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In a pre-boot environment, auto rebuild starts only when you enter the BIOS utility.
Note: Hot-plug support is not available in the pre-boot environment. For the system
BIOS or the Intel
the physical drive, insert the drive when the system is off.
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When the operating system is running, the auto rebuild starts if the system has a hot-
spare drive or if you replace the failed drive with a new drive.
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Embedded Server RAID BIOS Configuration utility to detect
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