
Setting a drive state to failed
You can use this action only on a physical drive that is part of a pool.
If a physical drive is part of a pool, you must change the drive state to
failed before removing the drive from the server or enclosure. Doing so eliminates
the risk of losing data. After you replace the physical drive, you can rebuild
the affected pool.
This action is useful in situations such as the following:
- You want to replace a physical drive that is marked with a S.M.A.R.T..
- You want to replace a physical drive that is unwarranted.
Attention:
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If you do not change an optimal physical drive state to failed
before removing the drive from the server or enclosure, you risk losing
data or damaging the physical drive.
- You cannot use this action on a physical drive undergoing a rebuild
operation.
- (For non-RAID level-x0 logical drives) If you choose to use this
action and a logical drive is:
- In a degraded state, the logical drive state
will change to failed.
- RAID level-0 and in an optimal state, the logical drive will
change to failed.
- Not RAID level-0 and in an optimal state, the logical drive state will
change to degraded.
- (For RAID level-x0 logical drives) If you choose to use this action
and a logical drive is in a degraded state, the logical
drive state might change to failed.
- In the Physical devices view, click
(physical drive) or
(physical
drive).
- Right-click Set drive state to failed. A confirmation window opens
to warn that this action might corrupt data.
Note: If the logical
drive that contains this physical drive is already failed, the Adaptec Storage Manager
does not display this warning because the data is already corrupt.
Continue to step 4.
- Click Yes. The Adaptec Storage Manager sets the drive status to failed.
- Replace the selected physical drive. If the logical drive is not failed,
manually rebuild the logical device.
More information
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