What Do The Hot Spare Icons Mean; Removing A Hot Spare - Adaptec Storage Manager User Manual

Chapter 9: Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares

What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean?

Icon Explanation
Healthy global or dedicated
hot spare
Hot spare is not assigned to
any logical drives
Hot spare is too small to
protect the logical drive(s) it's
assigned to
Global hot spare was
designated before any logical
drives were built
Hot spare has been built into a
logical drive after disk drive
failure

Removing a Hot Spare

You can remove a global hot spare or dedicated hot spare. You may want
to do this to:
Make disk drive space available for a logical drive.
Make a dedicated hot spare into a global hot spare or a global hot
spare into a dedicated hot spare.
Remove the 'hot spare' designation from a disk drive that is no
longer being used as a hot spare. (When a hot spare is built into a
logical drive after a disk drive failure, it retains its 'hot spare'
designation even though it can no longer protect the logical drives
it's assigned to. See
for more information.)
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure on page 147
Action
No action required.
Create at least one logical
drive on the same controller
Designate larger disk drive as
hot spare
Create at least one logical
drive on the same controller
Designate replacement or
other available disk drive as
new hot spare; remove 'hot
spare' designation from disk
drive (see below)
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