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Removing and Replacing a Good Drive with the Same Drive

If you want to remove a known, good drive (for example, if you want to test the system), you must force a rebuild. You have already created a file system when you first bound the disks. You do not have to create a file system, but you now have to rebind the disk. Note that in a RAID 5 system with one AIC controller, you have 2 LUNs and 10 bound drives. Five drives are bound to each LUN.

  1. Use the Storage Utility application to identify the disk you want to remove.

  2. Right click on the disk in the tree and select Identify Disk. You will see the “Disk will be forced offline. Do you want to continue?”
  3. Click OK. The “Operation successful. You may now safely remove the drive from the system.” message displays. Note that the LUN is degraded and the disk is now in a fault state.

  4. Use the thumbscrews to remove the bezel, note that all the LEDs for the disks in the LUN are flashing amber.
  5. Remove the drive.
  6. Replace the drive.
  7. Replace the bezel. This is important, because the fans are in the bezel and you want to keep the system cool.
  8. Select Refresh from the View menu.
  9. The Disk is in an Unbound state. One disk in the Bound LUN reads “disk missing.”
  10. Click on the disk in the Unbound state.
  11. Right click and select Rebuild. You will see a message that reads “Succeeded to start to rebuild.”
  12. Select Refresh from the View menu. There is now no disk in an Unbound state.

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