Promise Pegasus2 R6 Product Manual page 123

Pegasus2 R4/R6/R8 Product Manual
When the rebuild is complete, the spare drive has replaced the failed drive. In this example, failed drive 3
was replaced by spare drive 6. The disk array now consists of physical drives 1, 2, 4, and 6.
There is no spare drive at this moment. Even if physical drive 5 is of adequate capacity, it has not been
designated as a spare, therefore the Pegasus controller cannot use it as a spare.
Automatic Transition
At this juncture, you would replace the failed drive in slot 3 with a new physical drive of the same or
greater capacity.
When the Pegasus controller detects the new drive in slot 3, the controller:
Automatically transitions the data on drive 6 to drive 3
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