failed physical drive Setting a drive state to failed

You can use this action only on a physical drive that is part of a disk group. If a physical drive is part of a disk group, 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 disk group.

This action is useful in situations such as the following:

Attention:
  1. 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.

  2. You cannot use this action on a physical drive undergoing a rebuild operation.

  3. (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.
  4. (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.
  1. In the Physical devices view, click failed physical drive (physical drive) or(physical drive).

  2. 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.

  3. Click Yes. The Adaptec Storage Manager sets the drive status to failed.

  4. Replace the selected physical drive. If the logical drive is not failed, manually rebuild the logical device.

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