Drives have been replaced in a failed logical drive, but the logical drive has not yet been initialized. The Recovery Guru Details area provides specific information you will need as you follow the recovery steps.
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Note: If you have FlashCopy logical drives associated with the affected array, these FlashCopy logical drives will no longer be valid. Delete all FlashCopy logical drives associated with the affected array. |
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Select the affected array and then select Array>>Initialize. Result: The logical drives associated with the affected array in the Logical View of the Subsystem Management Window display an Operation in Progress Note: To monitor initialization progress, select the logical drive. Then, select Logical Drive>>Properties. Note that once the operation in progress has completed, the progress bar is no longer displayed in the Properties dialog. |
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If selecting Array>>Initialize does not start initialization, do the following:
Note: Make sure you save this procedure by selecting Save As because once you perform step 4 and the failure is fixed, you will not be able to access the information in steps 5 - 7 from the Recovery Guru. |
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Select Recheck to rerun the Recovery Guru to ensure that the failure has been fixed. |
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Add the re-initialized logical drives back to the operating system. You may need to reboot the operating system to see the logical drives. Note: Do not start I/O to these logical drives until after you restore from backup. |
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Restore the data for the re-initialized logical drives from backup. |
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If desired, create any FlashCopys that you deleted in Step 1. |