Promise Technology EX4650, EX8658, EX8654, EX8650 manual Clearing Stale and PFA Conditions

Chapter 5: Management with WebPAM PRO

2.Click the Enclosures icon.

3.Click the Enclosure icon.

4.Click the Physical Drives icon.

5.Click a Physical Drive icon.

6.Click the Settings tab in Management View.

7.Type an alias into the Physical Drive Alias field.

Maximum of 32 characters. Use letters, numbers, one space between words, and underscore.

8.Click the Submit button.

Clearing Stale and PFA Conditions

The Clear tab only appears when one or both conditions are present.

•Stale – The physical drive contains obsolete disk array information.

•PFA – The physical drive has errors resulting in a prediction of failure.

Be sure you have corrected the condition by a physical drive replacement, rebuild operation, etc., first. Then clear the condition.

To clear a Stale or PFA status from a physical drive:

1.Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.

2.Click the Enclosures icon.

3.Click the Enclosure icon.

4.Click the Physical Drives icon.

5.Click a Physical Drive icon.

6.in Management View, click the Clear tab.

7.Click the Submit button.

Note

If a physical drive has both a Stale and a PFA condition, click the Submit button once to clear the Stale condition, then click again to clear the PFA condition.

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