Setting a PFA drive to defunct
You can use this action only on a
physical drive that reports a PFA error
and is part of an array.
In Netfinity enclosures, if a physical
drive is part of an array you must set the drive to defunct before removing
the drive from the enclosure. Doing so eliminates the risk of losing data. After
you replace the physical drive, you can can rebuild the affected array.
Attention:
- (For non-RAID level-x0
logical drives) If a logical drive is in a critical
state and you choose to use this action on a PFA-reporting drive, the logical
drive state will change to offline.
- (For RAID level-x0 logical drives)
If a logical drive is in a critical
state and you choose to use this action on a PFA-reporting drive, the logical
drive state might change to offline.
- Click the physical drive
from the Main Tree.
- Click Actions --> Set
drive state to defunct. A window opens to warn that this action might
corrupt data.
Note: If the logical drive
that contains this physical drive is already offline, the ServeRAID Manager
does not display this warning because the data is already corrupt. Continue
to step 4.
- Click Yes. The ServeRAID
Manager sets the drive status to defunct.
- Replace and rebuild the defunct
physical drive.