Offline or missing virtual drives with preserved cache error message
Error Message: | There are offline or missing virtual drives with preserved |
| cache. Please check the cables and ensure that all drives are |
| present. Press any key to enter the configuration utility. |
Probable | The controller preserves the dirty cache from a virtual disk if the disk becomes |
Cause: | offline or is deleted because of missing physical disks. This preserved dirty cache is |
| called pinned cache, and is preserved until you import the virtual disk, or discard |
| the cache. |
Corrective | Use the <Ctrl> <R> utility to import the virtual disk or discard the preserved cache. |
Action: | For the steps used to manage preserved cache, see Managing The Preserved |
| Cache . |
Virtual disks offline error message
Error Message: | x Virtual Disk(s) Degraded, where x is the number of virtual |
| disks degraded. |
Probable | This message is displayed when the BIOS detects virtual disks in a degraded state. |
Cause: |
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Corrective | Take corrective action(s) to make the virtual disks optimal. The BIOS does not take |
Action: | any action. |
Virtual disks degraded error message
Error Message: | x Virtual Disk(s) Degraded, where x is the number of virtual |
| disks degraded. |
Probable | This message is displayed when the BIOS detects virtual disks in a degraded state. |
Cause: |
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Corrective | To make the virtual disks optimal, take one the following corrective actions: |
Action: | • Ensure all disks in the Virtual Disk are present and online. |
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| • Replace any failed disks that may be in the array. |
| • Correct a hot spare disk, and rebuild the array. |
| The BIOS does not take any action. |
Virtual disks partially degraded error message
Error Message: | x Virtual Disk(s) Partially Degraded, where x is the number of |
| virtual disks partially degraded. |
Probable | This message is displayed when the BIOS detects a single disk failure in a RAID 6 or |
Cause: | RAID 60 configuration. |
Corrective | You must check why the member disk is not present to correct the problem. The |
Action: | BIOS does not take any action. |
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