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System Maintenance
Note
Select OK and press Enter.
Step 7
The "Available Drives:" screen appears listing all hard drives available to include in an array. The
replacement drive should appear in this list.
Select all the drives—position the cursor over the text and press Enter.
Step 8
Select Create Array and press Enter.
Step 9
The RAID configuration options appear.
Step 10
Select the following RAID options:
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Select OK then press Enter.
Step 11
The "Disk Arrays:" screen appears listing all the ports and drives in Array Unit 0.
Press F8 to complete.
Step 12
Press Y to confirm.
Step 13
MARS exits the RAID utility and resumes the bootup process.
Step 14
At the MARS CLI prompt, use the raidstatus command to verify the following conditions:
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A degraded physical port at this stage can indicate a defective hard drive, and improperly inserted hard
drive, a loose hard drive cable connection, or a defective RAID controller card.
An array that has not completed rebuilding in two hours could indicate a defective RAID controller card.
This ends the
Delete and Create the RAID 10 Array
This section pertains only to the MARS 100, 100E, 200, GCM, and GC appliances.
Perform this procedure if MARS indicates that it cannot find the hard drives, you are reimaging MARS
with a DVD, or the RAID Utility failed to add a replacement drive.
Step 1
Establish a direct console connection to MARS with a keyboard and an external monitor.
Note
Shutdown the MARS Appliance with the shutdown CLI command.
Step 2
Powerup the MARS Appliance. Press Alt-3 to access the RAID utility when the following message
Step 3
appears:
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When an array is deleted, the data is lost.
RAID Configuration—10
Write Cache Status—disable
Stripe Size—64 KB
The full complement of ports are reported
All RAID 0 subunits are shown as OK or REBUILDING
All RAID 1 subunits are OK
Add a Replacement Drive to the Array with the RAID Utility
You cannot access the RAID utility with any other type of console connection.
Hardware Maintenance Tasks—MARS 100, 100E, 200, GCM, and GC
User Guide for Cisco Security MARS Local Controller
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