HP P3410A HP NetRAID Series User Guide - Page 90
Rebuild Option, Check Consistency Option
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Chapter 4 HP NetRAID Express Tools To format a physical drive, it must be in the Fail state. (You can change it to the Fail state by choosing Objects, then Physical Drive, then Fail Drive.) To format a hard drive, select Format, then select the drive you want to format from the drives listed. Press F10 to start the format. Rebuild Option Choose the Rebuild option from the HP NetRAID Express Tools Management menu to rebuild one or more failed disk drives. When the Physical Drives Selection menu opens, choose the drive you want to rebuild by highlighting it. Press the Spacebar to select the drive, F10 to start the Rebuild, F2 to view drive information, and F3 to view logical drives. See "Rebuilding Data" in Chapter 5 for further information. Check Consistency Option Choose this option to verify the redundancy data in logical drives using RAID levels 1, 3, 5, 10, 30, or 50. RAID levels 3, 5, 30, and 50 use an extra drive to store parity data blocks; parity is checked between these parity data blocks and the selected drives. RAID levels 1 and 10 use duplicate data drives (mirroring); the duplicate data is verified. When you choose Check Consistency, the parameters appear of the existing logical drives on the current adapter and a selection menu listing the logical drives by number is displayed. 1. Press the arrow keys to highlight the desired logical drives. 2. Press the Spacebar to select or deselect a drive for consistency checking. 3. Press F2 to select or deselect all the logical drives. 4. Press F10 to begin the consistency check. A progress indicator for each selected logical drive is displayed. 5. You may cancel a consistency check in progress by pressing Esc. 6. When the consistency check is finished, press any key to clear the progress display and press Esc to return to the Tools Management menu. Check Consistency should be run if the system shuts down irregularly, such as if the system hangs or suffers a power failure. It is also recommended to run consistency checks every two to four weeks to ensure that bad blocks on the disk drive are mapped out. Check Consistency always remedies inconsistencies. Check Consistency will only fail if the firmware could not complete parity and data writes due to a power-failure or a system hang, or if the logical drive degraded or failed when a physical drive went offline. In an inconsistent stripe, firmware always updates the parity stripe to restore consistency. 84