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SMART Errors

Table 7-6 describes issues related to the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART). SMART monitors the internal performance of all motors, heads, and physical disk electronics and detects predictable physical disk failures.

NOTE: For information about where to find reports of SMART errors that could indicate hardware failure, see the Dell OpenManage Storage Management documentation.

Table 7-6. SMART Errors

Problem	Suggested Solution
A SMART error is	Perform the following steps:
detected on a physical	1	Force the physical disk offline.
disk in a redundant	NOTE: If a hot spare is present, the rebuild starts with the hot
virtual disk.
	spare after the drive is forced offline.
	2	Replace it with a new physical disk of equal or higher
		capacity.
	3	Perform the Replace Member operation.
		The Replace Member operation allows you to copy data
		from a source physical disk of a virtual disk to a target
		physical disk that is not a part of the virtual disk. See "Using
		the SMART Feature" on page 24 for more information
		about the Replace Member feature.
A SMART error is	Perform the following steps:
detected on a physical	1	Back up your data.
disk in a	2	Use Replace Member or set up a global hot spare to replace
non-redundant virtual
		the disk automatically.
disk.
		See "Replacing an Online Physical Disk" on page 106 for
		information about the Replace Member feature.
	3	Replace the affected physical disk with a new physical disk
		of equal or higher capacity.
	4	Restore from the backup.

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