Automatically Rebuilding the Defunct Drive

Automatically Rebuilding the Defunct Drive

The ServeRAID adapter or 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 or 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.