Galaxy 65 User Guide

F.1.6 Blinking a Drive LED

You can blink the LED on a specific drive one of two ways:

From the Drive Utilities Menu (only works for a single drive; see below)

From the Display Drives list when you add a pool spare or display all drives (works for multiple drives). Select the drive and press B. Press B again to stop the blinking.

To blink a drive LED from the Drive Utilities Menu:

1From the System Menu, select Utilities Menu and press Enter. The Utilities Menu displays.

2Select Drive Utilities Menu and press Enter. The Drive Utilities Menu displays.

3Select Blink Drive LED and press Enter The Select Drive screen displays.

4Select the drive you want and press Enter.

The drive continues blinking its LED until you do one of the following:

Press Esc before the Disk Array Administrator times out.

Repeat the blink LED command, which toggles the blink LED command off.

5Press Esc to stop blinking the LED.

F.1.7 Taking Down a Drive

Caution This function is only for testing and could result in data loss. It should not be used in normal operation.

The Down Drive function sets the status of a drive in a fault-tolerant array to down. This forces the Galaxy 65 Subsystem to remove it from the array and marks the array as critical. At this point, you will be unable to take down any additional drives in the array.

If you have a properly sized dedicated or pool spare, this will cause a reconstruct on the affected array. For more information, see C.2.5, ”Reconstructing an Array”, on page 126.

To take down a drive:

1From the System Menu, select Utilities Menu and press Enter. The Utilities Menu displays.

2Select Drive Utilities Menu and press Enter. The Drive Utilities Menu displays.

3Select Down Drive and press Enter

The Select Drive screen displays showing drives that are array members.

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