Managing Spare Drives; Viewing Spare Drive Information - Promise Technology VessRAID 1740s Product Manual

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4. Press the
5. Press the
6. Press the
logical drive blink for one minute. See Figure 4.
Figure 4. Disk Status LED

Managing Spare Drives

Spare Drive Management on the LCD includes:
• Viewing Spare Drive Information (page 200)
• Creating a Spare Drive (page 201)
• Deleting a Spare Drive (page 201)
• Locating a Spare Drive (page 202)
For other spare drive functions, see "Managing Spare Drives" on page 117 or
"Managing Spare Drives" on page 151.

Viewing Spare Drive Information

To view spare drive information:
1. Press the
2. Press the
3. Press the
4. Press the
5. Press the
• Spare Drive ID Number
• Physical Drive ID Number*
• Capacity
• Revertible – See "Transition" on page 247 for more information.
• Type – Global (all disk arrays) or Dedicated (to specified disk arrays)
• Status
button choose a logical drive.
or button until the display says Locate Logical Drive.
button. The disk status LEDs for the physical drives in the
or button until the display says Spare Drive Management.
button and the display a list of spare drives by ID number.
or button to scroll through the list of spare drives.
button choose a spare drive.
or button to scroll through the list of items:
200
Disk Status