SUPER MICRO Computer AOC-USAS-L4iR manual Hot Plug Support

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Safety Information and Technical Specifications

4. When rebuild is complete, the CU displays the message:

Rebuilding of Drive X Completed Successfully. Press Esc. (X = the ID of the rebuilt drive.)

5. Press Esc to display the Management Menu.

The state of the rebuilt disk drive changes from FAIL to ONLIN.

If you press Esc while the rebuild is running, the following options display:

Stop: (Available only if AutoResume is enabled on the adapter: Management Menu -> Objects -> Adapter -> AutoResume.) The rebuild is stopped, and the CU stores the percentage of the rebuild already completed. If AutoResume is enabled, the rebuild resumes where it left off when you restart it, instead of start- ing over from 0 percent.

Continue: The rebuild continues normally.

Abort: The rebuild is completely aborted and the disk drive remains in the FAIL state. If you restart the rebuild, it begins at 0 percent.

3-5 Hot Plug Support

The MegaRAID BIOS CU supports hot plugging of disk drives. The following hot plug message will appear when you insert or remove a disk drive: A Drive Has Been Inserted/Removed. Configuration Updated. Press ESC... After you press Esc the inserted or removed drive will be reflected in the list of drives that appears in the configuration utility.

You should not insert or remove a drive while you are defining a new logical drive or while an initialization or other process is running. The following bullets describe how the CU handles hot plugging when various actions occur:

If the Physical Drive window or one of the Configuration windows is open when you insert or remove a drive, the window will close when the hot plug message appears.

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Contents AOC-USAS-L4i AOC-USAS-L4iR Manual Revision 1.0b Release Date October 17 Table of Contents MegaRAID Storage Manager SoftwareOverview and Installation Adding a Saved Storage Configuration Add-on Card Users Guide An Important Note to Users Product FeaturesOverview Operating Systems SupportedAsia-Pacific Contacting SuperMicroHeadquarters EuropeESD Safety Guidelines General Safety GuidelinesAn Important Note to Users Add-on Card Users Guide Front Connectors Front Connectors and Jumpers#1. Internal SAS Connector Front Connector and Pin DefinitionsFront Jumper Locations and Pin Definitions Jumper SettingsFront Pane LEDs LED IndicatorsRAID 1 Arrays RAID Minimum Drive RequirementsAdd-on Card Users Guide Performing a Quick Configuration Chapter Driver InstallationConfiguring Arrays and Logic Drives Starting the MegaRAID Bios CUUsing Easy Configuration Logical Drive Configuration Using New Configuration and View/Add ConfigurationSafety Information and Technical Specifications Creating a Global Hotspare Drive Initializing Logical Drives Logical Drive Submenu Setting the Hard Disk Write Cache and Read Ahead Policies Rebuilding a Drive Hot Plug Support Checking Data Consistency Viewing and Changing Device Properties Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties Forcing Drives Online or Offline Viewing and Changing Logical Drive PropertiesViewing Physical Drive Properties Configuring a Bootable Logical Drive Deleting a Logical DriveClearing a Storage Configuration Creating Storage Configurations OverviewHardware and Software Requirements Monitoring Storage DevicesMaintaining Storage Configurations Installation Customer Information Screen Customer Information Screen Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for Linux Linux Error Messages Add-on Card Users Guide Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Chapter MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and MenusSelect Server Window Select Server Window MegaRAID Storage Manager Window Physical/Logical View Panel Event Log Panel Properties/Operations/Graphical View PanelFile Menu Menu BarLog Menu Creating a New Storage Configuration Chapter ConfigurationFirst Screen Configuration Wizard Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters Auto Configuration Screen Using Auto ConfigurationUsing Guided Configuration First Guided Conguration Screen Second Guided Configuration Screen Manual Configuration First Manual Configuration Screen Using Manual Configuration RAIDManual Configuration Defining a Virtual Disk Manual Configuration Adding a Hotspare Safety Information and Technical Specifications Using Manual Configuration RAID Using Manual Configuration RAID Adding Hotspare Disks Changing Adjustable Task Rates Deleting a Virtual Disk Changing Virtual Disk PropertiesClearing a Storage Configuration from a Controller Saving a Storage Configuration to DiskAdding a Saved Storage Configuration