What Caused the Problem?
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.
Important Notes
Recovery Steps
1 | 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 progress or change the rate of the initialization, 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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2 | 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 3 and the failure is fixed, you will not be able to access the information in steps 4 and 5 from the Recovery Guru. |
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3 | Select Recheck to rerun the Recovery Guru to ensure that the failure has been fixed. | ||||||||
4 | Add the re-initialized logical drives back to the operating system. You may need to reboot the operating system to see the logical drives. Restore the data for the re-initialized logical drives from backup. Note: Do not start I/O to these logical drives until after you restore from backup. |
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5 | Restore the data for the re-initialized logical drives from backup. |