Salvaging Physical Drives; Clearing Stale And Pfa Conditions - Promise Technology Network Device EX4650 User Manual

Salvaging Physical Drives

Physical drives can develop problems that make them unsuitable for service in a
logical drive. These problems are reflected in the physical drive status:
PFA – The physical drive has errors resulting in a prediction of failure
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• Stale – Caused by obsolete array information on the physical drive
• Offline – The physical drive is present but set to Offline status
• Dead – Physical drive set down by the SuperTrak controller
WebPAM PRO has features to deal with PFA or Stale physical drives. An Offline
or Dead physical drive cannot be salvaged and must be replaced.

Clearing Stale and PFA Conditions

To clear a Stale or PFA status from a physical drive:
1. Open WebPAM PRO.
See "Logging into WebPAM PRO" on page 107 for more information.
2. Click the Subsystem
3. Click the Enclosures
4. Click the Enclosure
5. Click the Physical Drives
6. Click a Physical Drive
7. In Management View, click the Clear tab.
8. Click the Submit button.
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If a physical drive has both a Stale and a PFA condition, click the
Submit button once to clear the Stale condition, then click again
to clear the PFA condition.
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Chapter 8: Troubleshooting