MSI X2-109 v1 - Manual (Page 119)

Making a Drive Offline 9-3
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if the drive is still operational.) If hotspare disks are available, the failed
drive is rebuilt automatically without any user intervention.
If a drive has failed, a red circle appears to the right of the disk drive
icon: . A small yellow circle appears to the right of the icon of the
virtual disk that uses this physical disk: . This indicates that the
virtual disk is in a degraded state; the data is still safe, but data could be
lost if another drive fails.
Follow these steps if you need to rebuild a physical drive:
1. Right-click the icon of the failed drive, and select Rebuild.
2. Click Yes when the warning message appears. If the drive is still
good, a rebuild will start.
You can monitor the progress of the rebuild in the Group Show
Progress window by selecting Group Operations->Show Progress.
If the drive cannot be rebuilt, an error message appears. Continue
with the next step.
3. Shut down the system, disconnect the power cord, and open the
computer case.
4. Replace the failed disk drive with a new drive of equal capacity.
5. Close the computer case, reconnect the power cord, and restart the
computer.
6. Restart the MegaRAID Storage Manager software.
When the new drive spins up, the drive icon changes back to normal
status, and the rebuild process begins automatically. You can monitor
the progress of the rebuild in the Group Show Progress window by
selecting Group Operations->Show Progress.
9.4 Making a Drive Offline
If a disk drive is currently part of a redundant configuration and you want
to use it in another configuration, you can use MegaRAID Storage
Manager commands to remove the disk drive from the first configuration.
When you do this, all data on that drive is lost.