Chapter 5: RAID Monitoring and Maintenance

In the example above, there are three disk drives attached to the FastTrak controller and all three are assigned to a RAID 5 array.

The three disk drives appear under the Controller but only two appear under the Array. The disk drive on Channel 2 does not appear under Array. This is the suspect drive.

4.To double-check the suspect drive, click on its icon under the Controller.

Figure 74. Click on a disk drive icon in Tree View to display its information in Information View.

5.In Information View, check the disk drive's status. The above example shows the suspected drive is Offline. This drive has failed.

If you have a Hot Spare drive installed and enabled, the array will begin to Rebuild automatically.

If you do not have a Hot Spare drive, you must replace the drive before a Rebuild of the array can begin.

Refer to the FastTrak S150 SX4 / SX4000 series User Manual for more information about replacing a failed drive.

After you replace the failed drive, go on to Rebuild an Array on the next page.

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