Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 6i - Manual (Page 104)

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Configuring and Managing RAID
The section "Importing or Clearing Foreign Configurations Using the Foreign
Configuration View Screen" on page 90 contains the procedures you can use to
manage the foreign configurations.
NOTE:
The BIOS Configuration Utility reports error codes for failed imports of
foreign configurations.
Physical Disk Management
Setting LED Blinking
The LED blinking option indicates when physical disks are being used to
create a virtual disk. You can choose to start or stop the LED blinking.
Perform the following steps to start or stop this option.
1 Press <Ctrl><N> to access the PD Mgmt screen.
A list of physical disks appears. The status of the each disk displays under
the heading State.
2 Press the down arrow key to highlight a physical disk.
3 Press <F2> to display the menu of available actions.
4 Press the down arrow key to highlight LED Blinking.
5 Press the right arrow key to display the available actions, Start and Stop.
6 Select Start to begin LED blinking or Stop to end LED blinking.
Creating Global Hot Spares
A global hot spare can be used to replace a failed physical disk in any redundant
array as long as the capacity of the global hot spare is equal to or larger than the
coerced capacity of the failed physical disk.
You can designate the hot spare to have enclosure affinity, meaning that if
there are drive failures present on a split backplane configuration, then the
hot spare is first used on the backplane that it resides in.
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