Clearing metadata from a drive, Clearing metadata from a drive 8-4 – Chaparral K5312/K7313 User Manual

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G- and K-Series User’s Guide

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To view drive status:

1

From the System Menu, select Array Menu and press Enter.

The Select Array screen displays with a list of existing arrays.

2

Select the array you want and press Enter.

The Array Menu screen displays.

3

Select Drive Status and press Enter.

The Drive Status screen displays showing the drives that are members of the
array and that are assigned as spares.

Use the

or

arrow keys to scroll through the drives. These are the drives that

are currently members of the array.

4

Press Esc to return to the Array Menu.

Clearing Metadata from a Drive

All of the member drives in an array contain metadata in the first sectors of the drive.
The controller uses the metadata to identify array members after restarting or
changing controllers.

You can clear the metadata from a drive if you have a drive that was previously a
member of an array. Drives in this state display Leftover in the Display Drives screen.
After you clear the metadata, you can use the drive in an array or as a spare.

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