Sun Microsystems X6450 manual Hot-Unplug Removal Conditions, Hot-Plug Addition Conditions

Note – Hot-plugging of hard disk drives is NOT supported during periods when the controller is busy performing actions on logical drives, such as building, rebuilding, or migrating RAID volumes.

Hot-Unplug Removal Conditions

Hot-unplug removal of HDDs is supported under the following conditions:

■The hard disk drive to be removed must not be a part of a logical device (its status must be ‘available’).

■After the hard disk drive is removed from the enclosure, you must perform a bus scan by using the Rescan Drives option from the main menu of the Array Configuration Utility (ACU).

■You must confirm that the Disk Utility reports the correct configuration of the attached target devices.

Hot-Plug Addition Conditions

Hot-plug addition of HDDs is supported under the following conditions:

■After the hard disk drive is added to the enclosure, you must perform a bus scan by using the Rescan Drives option from the main menu of the ACU.

■You must confirm that the Disk Utility reports the correct configuration of the attached target devices.

Hot-Unplug and Plug Replacement or Reinsertion Conditions

Hot unplug and plug replacement reinsertion of HDDs is supported under the following conditions:

■The hard disk drive to be removed must not be a part of a logical device (its status must be available).

■If a hard disk drive is to be removed and replaced either into the same slot or into a different unused slot using the same disk drive or a new disk drive, you must perform a bus scan between the removal and the replacement steps, as follows:

a.Remove the selected hard disk drive.

b.Complete a bus scan by using the Rescan Drives option in the ACU.

Appendix B Using the BIOS Configuration Utility to Configure the Sun Blade RAID 5 Expansion Module 47