Dell Serial Attached SCSI 6iR Integrated and Adapter User Manual
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NOTE:
During the rebuilding of a volume the synchronization will be restarted from
the beginning if a hard drive is added or removed from the system. Wait until any
synchronization processes have been completed before adding or removing hard
drives.
NOTE:
Always remove any configuration information from hard drives if they are to
be removed from a system. This can be completed by deleting the RAID
configuration through the BIOS configuration utility or an operating system unless
you are migrating these hard drives to a different system level application. SAS 6/iR
hotspare functionality requires that the slots in which hard drives are inserted be
associated with the virtual disks they are a part of. Do not insert hard drives with
foreign or old (out of date) configuration information stored on those hard drives
into slots that are associated with existing virtual disks.
NOTE:
If the system is rebooted while the rebuild is in progress, the rebuild will be
restarted from the beginning. The rebuild time for a volume varies depending on the
size of the member disks and any additional system activity. A system with no
additional activity executes a rebuild at approximately 30 MB per second.
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