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This condition is the result of a missing physical drive. See "Incomplete Array" on page 215 before you use this
function.
To accept an incomplete array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter .
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter .
3. Highlight Accept Incomplete Array and press Enter .
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Media Patrol checks the magnetic media on physical drives. Predictive Data Migration (PDM) migrates data from
the suspect physical drive to a spare drive before the physical drive fails. Power Management parks the heads,
spins down, and stops rotation after a set period of time to reduce power consumption.
Media Patrol, PDM, and Power Management are enabled by default. Enabled is the recommended setting for
both features.
To enable Media Patrol, PDM, and Power Management on a disk array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter .
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter .
3. Highlight Media Patrol and press the spacebar to toggle between Enable and Disable .
4. Highlight PDM and press the spacebar to toggle between Enable and Disable .
5. Highlight Power Management and press the spacebar to toggle between Enable and Disable .
6. Press Control-A to save your settings.
See "Running PDM on a Disk Array (CLU)" on page 136 and "Making Background Activity Settings (CLU)" on
page 154.
For Power Management settings, see "Making Controller Settings (CLU)" on page 124.
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To run the Transport function on a disk array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter .
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter .
3. Highlight Transport and press Enter .
4. Press Y to confirm.
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Before you can rebuild, you must have a replacement or target physical drive of adequate capacity for your disk
array.
To rebuild a disk array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter .
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter .
3. Highlight Background Activities and press Enter .
4. Highlight Rebuild and press Enter .
Default source and target drives are shown with possible alternative choices.
5. To choose different drive, highlight the drive, press the backspace key to remove the current number, then
type a new number.
6. Highlight Start and press Enter .
For rebuild rate, see "Making Background Activity Settings (CLU)" on page 154.
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Media Patrol is a routine maintenance procedure that checks the magnetic media on each disk drive. If Media
Patrol encounters a critical error, it triggers PDM if PDM is enabled on the disk array.
See "Enabling Media Patrol, PDM, and Power Management on a Disk Array (CLU)" on page 135.
For Media Patrol rate, see "Making Background Activity Settings (CLU)" on page 154.
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