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NOTE
For two-drive configurations, just remove one drive. For RAID 1+0
configurations, the first n/2 drives are always mirrored to the
second n/2 drives (unless drives have been physically reordered
using Offline Drive Movement). Do not remove drives that are
mirrored to one another.
Restart the operating system with the remaining half of the drives that were created by the mirror.
5.
During boot-up, a message will indicate that the removed drives are not responding (Figure 1).
6.
Press F2 to fail the missing drive(s) and continue in recovery mode. All drives on the controller will
remain disabled until you press F2. If you press F1 by mistake, simply reboot again and press F2
to fail the drives.
Figure 1. Boot-up message indicating that the logical drive is still available but missing physical drives
NOTE
If the logical drive is failed at this point and the system will not
boot, most likely two drives that were mirrored to one another
have been removed. If this occurs, shut down the system,
reinstall all drives, and turn the system back on. The drives that
were mirrored to one another will be marked okay and all data
should still be intact. Start again at step 1, being careful not to
remove any drives that are mirrored to one another.
Insert a new drive into the open drive bay and the array rebuild should start automatically. If the
7.
rebuild does not start automatically, reboot and press F1 to enable rebuild at the 1786 Recovery
Needed POST message prompt.
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