Simulating with a hot spare drive, 1 simulating with a hot spare drive – IBM SG24-4576-00 User Manual

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configured. It is also assumed that the RAID administration in the server and the
NetFinity Manager in a workstation are running.

4.8.1 Simulating with a Hot Spare Drive

1. Start the RAID Administration for NetWare Utility.

A screen like the one in Figure 114 will appear.

Figure 114. RAID Administration Utility - M a i n M e n u

Notes

If any of the disks appears to be a slightly different shade of green than
the rest, this indicates that some errors have been encountered by the
RAID Controller with this device but the retries have been successful.

To get information about these errors, you can use the NetFinity Services
Manager. To do this:

1. Start the RAID Manager from the NetFinity Services Manager folder.
2. Select the drive.
3. Click on the drive with mouse button 2.
4. Select Device statistics.

2. Select Show Drive Information from the Administration Options menu to

verify the array configuration.

A screen like the one in Figure 115 on page 154 will appear.

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