Forcing A Physical Drive Offline Or Online; Locating A Physical Drive - Promise Technology VessRAID 1740s Product Manual

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Forcing a Physical Drive Offline or Online

The Physical Drive–Force Offline/Online tab enables you to force an:
• Online physical drive to go Offline
• Offline physical drive to go Online
The Force Offline/Online tab appears only for physical drives that are assigned to
disk arrays.
To force a physical drive offline or online:
1. Click the Subsystem
2. Click the Enclosures
3. Click the Enclosure
4. Click the Physical Drives
5. Click a Physical Drive
6. Click the Force Offline/Online tab in Management View.
7. Click the Submit button.
8. In the confirmation box, type the word confirm in the field provided.
9. Click the OK button.

Locating a Physical Drive

To locate a physical drive:
1. Click the Subsystem
2. Click the Enclosures
3. Click the Enclosure
4. Click the Physical Drives
5. Click a Physical Drive
Forcing a physical drive offline or online is likely to cause data
loss. Back up your data before you proceed. Use these functions
only when required.
Forcing a physical drive offline will cause your logical drives to
become degraded. If Auto Rebuild is enabled and a spare drive is
available, the disk array will begin rebuilding itself automatically.
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