Windows Setup and Operation 3-29

Replacing Failed Hard Disk Drives

Follow the procedure below to locate and replace the failed hard disk. The failed hard disk should be replaced with new device with the server powered-on.

How to Locate Failed Disks

1.From [Start], select [All Programs] - [RDR] and click [RDR Utility] to start [RDR Utility].

2.From the tree on the left pane of [RDR Utility], select each disk and check the values of [MTBF: Current] and [MtbfThresholdStatus] in the right pane.

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For RDR Utility, see “About RDR Utility” on page 3-16.

[Description of each MTBF value]

Property name

Description

Normal value*

MTBF: Current

Mean time between failures.

Unknown

MtbfThresholdStatus

The status of comparing the MTBF value

Normal

 

with the threshold level (1200 seconds).

 

 

* The normal value denotes the value of when no error has occurred.

If either of the values is different from the normal value, the disk has an error.