Failed, Drive – Adaptec 48300 User Manual

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Glossary

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drive

Device used for storing data. May contain one or more removable or
nonremovable, writable or read only media. See also

hard disk, hard disk

drive

.

drive LED

Indicator light that illuminates during read or write operations.

E

event

Notification or alert from the system, indicating that a change has
occurred.

event log

File used to maintain information about prior HostRAID controller
activities or errors.

event notification

Process for transmitting events.

F

failed

State of a non

redundant

array that has suffered a single drive failure, or

a redundant array that has suffered multiple drive failures. A failed array
is inaccessible and data is lost.

failed partition

A

partition

that is no longer usable by an array because it is either

logically bad and therefore no longer needed, or physically damaged.

failover drive

See

hotspare

.

fault-tolerant array

Refers to an array that can continue to function after a disk drive failure
without loss of data. See also

redundant

.

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