Asus PIKE 2008 IMR User Manual - Page 42

Locate, Stop Locate, Make Global HSP, Enclosure Affinity, Make Unconf Bad, Prepare Removal

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• Select Locate to make the LED flash on the drive. This works only if the drive is installed in a drive enclosure. • Select Stop Locate to disable the LED flash on the drive. If the drive state is Unconfigured Good, four additional operations appear on this screen: • Select Make Global HSP to make a global hot spare, available to all of the virtual drives. • Select Enclosure Affinity so if there are drive failures present on a split backplane configuration, then the hot spare will be used first on the backplane side that it resides in. • Select Make Unconf Bad to make the drive state to become Unconfigured Bad. • Select Prepare Removal to prepare the drive for removal from the enclosure. 2-28 Chapter 2: RAID configuration

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Chapter 2: RAID configuration
Select
Locate
to make the LED flash on the drive. This works only if the drive
is installed in a drive enclosure.
Select
Stop Locate
to disable the LED flash on the drive.
If the drive state is Unconfigured Good, four additional operations appear on this
screen:
Select
Make Global HSP
to make a global hot spare, available to all of the
virtual drives.
Select
Enclosure Affinity
so if there are drive failures present on a split
backplane configuration, then the hot spare will be used first on the backplane
side that it resides in.
Select
Make Unconf Bad
to make the drive state to become Unconfigured
Bad.
Select
Prepare Removal
to prepare the drive for removal from the enclosure.