IBM 86624RY Maintenance Manual - Page 100

Unblock the Logical Drive: This choice appears in the Information mode when you select a specific logical drive that is in the Blocked state. You can select this choice to change the Drive Access setting for the RAID level-0 logical drive from Blocked to Unblocked. During a rebuild operation, the ServeRAID controller sets the state of any RAID level-0 logical drives associated with a failed array to the Blocked state. After the Rebuild operation completes, you can unblock the RAID level-0 logical drives, and access them once again. However, the logical drive might contain damaged data. You must either re-create, install, or restore the data from the most recent backup disk or tape to the RAID level-0 logical drive. The following choice appears on the Actions pull-down menu when you select a hot-spare drive from the Main Tree: Remove from Hot-Spare State: This choice is available in the Information mode only. Select this choice to remove a hot-spare drive from the configuration and set the drive state back to Ready. The following choices appear on the Actions pull-down menu when you select a physical drive, a physical drive icon, or a SCSI channel icon from the Main Tree: Set Drive State to Hot Spare: This choice is available in the Information mode only. It appears when the physical drive that you select from the Main Tree is in the Ready state. You can select this choice to add the drive to the configuration and to change its state from Ready to Hot Spare. Set Drive State to Online: This choice appears in the Information mode, and you can use it to change the state of a drive from Defunct to Online. Attention You might lose data by setting a Defunct physical drive that is part of an array to Online. Replace Drive and Rebuild: This choice is available in the Information mode only. Select this choice when you 92 Netfinity Server HMM