Table 7-15. the wrong physical disk was removed, Table 7-16. cannot initialize a physical disk – Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller S100 User Manual

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Troubleshooting

Table 7-15. The Wrong Physical Disk was Removed

Likely Causes to Check

Corrective Actions

A physical disk has been

removed from a virtual disk

The removal of one physical disk from a virtual disk

causes:

• A Volume or RAID 0 virtual disk to change to Failed

status.

• A RAID 1 and RAID 5 virtual disk to change to

Degraded status.

• A RAID 10 virtual disk to change to Degraded status

(when a physical disk is removed from one of the

mirrored sets).

Re-insert the removed physical disk and perform a

Rescan of the virtual disk.

Table 7-16. Cannot Initialize a Physical Disk

Likely Causes to Check

Corrective Actions

The physical disk cannot be

initialized

Check whether or not the physical disk is:

• Already a member of a virtual disk.
• Currently a global or dedicated spare.
• Reporting an Offline state.

Only physical disks that are Ready can be

initialized.

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