Replacing Failed Hard Disk Drives - NEC N8800-096F User Manual

3-16 Windows Setup and Operation

Replacing Failed Hard Disk Drives

Follow the procedure below to replace the failed hard disk. The failed hard disk should be replaced
with new device with the server powered-on.
IMPORTANT:
To replace a disk that does not have any error for preventive maintenance, see "Removing Hard
Disk Drives Which Do Not Have Error" on page 3-22 and replace the disk.
Procedures to Replace Failed Disks
When a failure occurs on a disk mirrored by volume using [Disk Management], follow the steps
below to replace the disk.
IMPORTANT:
To reconfigure a mirror, be sure to confirm the Target ID in the disk's [Properties] and .make
a pair of Target ID 0 and 3, 1 and 4, and 2 and 5. Do not mirror disks using the disk number
shown in [Disk Management].
When the disk to be inserted into a slot for dual configuration of disk has been used as a disk
which contains the boot volume (disk storing the OS), the disk cannot be used for dual
configuration. Initialize the disk to use the disk.
This section describes an example of when the disk 1 and disk 5 failed.
1.
Click [Start]
Management] window appears.
2.
Click [Disk Management] under [Storage]
in the console tree. An example in this
figure shows that one of the mirrored disks
in which Drives E and F are included is
broken. Some disks are indicated as
"Unknown disk." However, they may be
indicated differently depending on the error
type. Even in such cases, failed disks can be
recovered by following the steps below:
3.
Remove the hard disks of disk 1 and disk 5.
[Administrative Tools] [Computer Management]. The [Computer