Automatically Rebuilding the Defunct Drive

Automatically Rebuilding the Defunct Drive

The ServeRAID adapter/controller will rebuild a defunct drive automatically when all of the following conditions exist:

•  The physical drive that failed is part of a RAID level-1 or RAID level-5 logical drive.
•  A hot-spare or standby hot-spare drive with a capacity equal to or greater than the capacity  of the defunct drive is available the moment the drive fails.
  •  When multiple hot-spare drives are  available, the ServeRAID adapter/controller searches for a hot-spare drive of  the appropriate size. The smallest drive that meets this requirement enters the  Rebuild state.
  •  If no hot-spare or standby hot-spare drives  are available, the rebuild operation will start the moment you replace the  defective drive.

    Note: If you physically replace the drive  and the new drive does not appear in the Physical Drives branch of the Main  Tree, you must scan for new or removed Ready drives.

•  No rebuild, synchronization, or logical-drive migration operation is in process.

•  Software and Physical Replacement
•  Using and Understanding the ServeRAID Administration Log