12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
4.13.14
Setting LED Blinking
You can use the Locate option to make the LEDs blink on the physical drives used by a virtual drive. You can choose to
start or stop the LED blinking.
Perform the following steps to start or stop LED blinking:
1.
Navigate to the Drive Management screen (in the PD Mgmt menu).
2.
Select a physical drive, and press the F2 key.
3.
Navigate to Locate, and press Enter.
The Start and the Stop options appear.
4.
Perform one of these actions:
Select Start, and press Enter to start LED blinking.
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Select Stop, and press Enter to stop LED blinking.
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4.13.15
Performing a Break Mirror Operation
You can perform a Break Mirror operation on a drive group. The Break Mirror operation enables a RAID 1 configured
drive group to be broken into two volumes. You can use one of the volumes in another system and replicate it without
making a copy of the virtual drive.
Perform the following steps to perform a break mirror operation:
1.
Navigate to the VD Mgmt screen, navigate to a drive group on which you want to perform the break mirror
operation, and press the F2 key.
2.
Navigate to Break Mirror, and press Enter.
The following message box appears, asking for your confirmation.
Figure 61 Break Mirror
3.
Press Yes to proceed.
NOTE
Both the Start and Stop options of Locate only work if the drive is
installed in a drive enclosure.
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Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility
Viewing and Changing Device Properties