Dell (PERC) S100, PERC S300 manual Troubleshooting

Table 7-15. The Wrong Physical Disk was Removed

Likely Causes to Check Corrective Actions

A physical disk has been removed from a virtual disk

The removal of one physical disk from a virtual disk causes:

•A Volume or RAID 0 virtual disk to change to Failed status.

•A RAID 1 and RAID 5 virtual disk to change to Degraded status.

•A RAID 10 virtual disk to change to Degraded status (when a physical disk is removed from one of the mirrored sets).

Re-insert the removed physical disk and perform a Rescan of the virtual disk.

Table 7-16. Cannot Initialize a Physical Disk

Likely Causes to Check Corrective Actions

The physical disk cannot be initialized

Check whether or not the physical disk is:

•Already a member of a virtual disk.

•Currently a global or dedicated spare.

•Reporting an Offline state.

Only physical disks that are Ready can be initialized.

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