LSI SAS2 manual Manage Hot Spares window appears, Smart support, Hot Spare status changes to Yes

Chapter 3: Creating Mirrored Volumes Managing Hot Spare Disks SAS2 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide

	Figure 6:		Manage Array Window
		The Manage Hot Spares window appears.
	6.	Identify a disk that is not part of a RAID volume (i.e., the value in the Drive Status
		column is not RAID) and that is not already identified as a hot spare disk.
		A global hot spare disk must have 512-byte blocks and nonremovable media. The
		disk type must be either SATA with extended command set support or SAS with
		SMART support.
	7.	Select the Hot Spr (Hot Spare) field for this disk, and press the space bar.
		The Hot Spare status changes to Yes.
	8.	(Optional) Repeat the preceding step to select a second global hot spare disk
	9.	Press C to create the hot spare disk.
		A menu window appears. An error message appears if the selected disk is not at
		least as large as the smallest disk used in the existing volume(s). An error message
		also appears if you try to add a SATA disk as a hot spare for volumes that use SAS
		disks, or vice versa.
	10. Select Save changes then exit this menu to create the hot spare disk(s).
		The SAS2 BIOS CU pauses while it configures the global hot spares.
3.3.2 Deleting Hot Spare Disks	Follow these steps to delete a global hot spare disk:
	1.	Access the Manage Hot Spares window by following steps 1 through 5 of the
		previous section.
	2.	Select a hot spare disk for deletion, and press C.
	3.	Select Save changes then exit this menu to commit the changes.
		The configuration utility pauses while it removes the global hot spare.

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