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Physical Disk Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Setting LED Blinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Creating Global Hot Spares. . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Removing Global or Dedicated Hot Spares. . . . 105
Replacing an Online Physical Disk . . . . . . . . 106
Stopping Background Initialization. . . . . . . . 107
Performing a Manual Rebuild of
an Individual Physical Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Controller Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Enabling Boot Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Enabling BIOS Stop on Error . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Restoring Factory Default Settings . . . . . . . . 110
6 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Post Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Virtual Disks Degraded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Memory Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Pinned Cache State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
General Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Physical Disk Related Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Physical Disk Failures and Rebuilds . . . . . . . . . 121
SMART Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Replace Member Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
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