Taking Down A Disk Drive - Adaptec DuraStor 7220SS User Manual

To blink a disk drive LED:
1
From the System Menu, select Utilities Menu and press Enter.
The Utilities menu appears.
2
Select Drive Utilities Menu and press Enter.
The Drive Utilities menu appears.
3
Select Blink Drive LED and press Enter.
The Select Drive(s) menu appears.
4
Select the disk drive you want and press Enter.
That disk drive's LED begins to blink.
5
Press Esc to stop blinking the LED.

Taking Down a Disk Drive

Caution: This function is only for testing arrays and should
!
not be used in normal operation.
The Down Drive Function sets the status of a disk drive in a fault-
tolerant array to Down. This forces the controller to remove it from
the array and marks the array as critical. When a disk drive is
down and the array is critical, you can't take down any additional
disk drives in that array.
To bring the disk drive up again, you must use Rescan. See
Rescanning All Channels on page
clear the metadata from the disk drive before you can use it in an
array or as a spare. See
page 6-3.
Managing Disk Drives and Enclosures
5-21. After you rescan, you must
Clearing Metadata from a Disk Drive on
6-6