Replacing Disk Drives In A Logical Drive - Adaptec Storage Manager User Manual

Chapter 15: Managing Controllers and Disk Drives

Replacing Disk Drives in a Logical Drive

You can replace one or more disk drives in a logical drive. You may want
to do this to upgrade to larger disk drives, or to make disk drive size
uniform across the logical drive.
Caution: If another disk drive in the logical drive fails during
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rebuild (see page
To replace a disk drive in a logical drive:
In the Physical Devices View, click the disk drive you want to replace.
1
Set the drive state to failed. (See
2
Remove and replace the disk drive with one of equal or larger size.
3
Wait for the logical drive to rebuild. (See
4
Repeat Steps 1
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For information about solving disk drive problems, see
a Disk Drive Failure on page
151), you may lose data.
to 4 for all the disk drives you want to replace.
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