Logical Drive Auto Creation - Promise Technology VTRAK 15200 User Manual

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VTrak 15200 User Manual

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Critical – A physical drive has failed, the logical drive is available but fault

tolerance has been lost

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Offline – The logical drive is offline and unavailable

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INIT x% – Initialization, done at logical drive creation. The logical drive is

clearing old, unusuable data from the disk drives.

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RBLD x% – Rebuild, a repair operation. The logical drive is rebuilding data

or parity to a replacement drive. The target disk drive is cited by ID number.

The logical drive is available

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SYNC x% – Synchronization, a maintenance operation. The logical drive

checks the data and parity and corrects inconsistencies. The logical drive is

available

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PDM x% – Predictive Data Migration, a maintenance operation. The logical

drive moves data from a suspect disk drive to a replacement. The target disk

drive is cited by ID number. This action anticipates and prevents a disk drive

failure and resulting Critical Status. A replacement disk drive is required. The

logical drive is available

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RC x% – Redundancy Check. The logical drive is checking data to verify that

redundancy or parity match. Unlike Synchronizing, no corrections are made.

The logical drive is available

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MP x% – Media Patrol. The logical drive is checking disk drives to verify the

condition of the magnetic media. Unlike Synchronizing, no corrections are

made. The logical drive is available

To create a logical drive, see page 145.

To specify a hot spare drive, see page 150.

If you know a disk drive is good but VTrak shows an Error, wipe the drive's

reserve sector. See page 140.