Users Guide
Property Denition
• Online — Indicates that the physical disk is part of a virtual disk and is functioning 
normally. For more information, see Setting Online And Oine.
NOTE: For all NON-Raid Disks for systems running on Enhanced HBA 
mode will have the status displayed as Online.
• Degraded — The physical disk or device has encountered a failure and is operating 
in a Degraded state.
• Failed — The physical disk or device has encountered a failure and is no longer 
functioning. This state is also displayed when a physical disk or device that is part of 
a redundant virtual disk is oine or deactivated. For more information, see Setting 
Online And Oine.
• Oine — The physical disk or device has failed or contains dead segments. Check 
to see if the Remove Dead Segments task appears on the physical disk drop-down 
menu. Refresh the system and then remove the dead segment (Removing Dead 
Segments) for the physical disk. If this task is not displayed, then the physical disk or 
device cannot be recovered.
• Rebuilding — Data from a redundant virtual disk is being rebuilt onto the physical 
disk or device.
• Incompatible — The physical disk or device is not suitable for a rebuild. The physical 
disk or device may be too small or it may be using an incompatible technology. For 
example, you cannot rebuild a SAS disk with a SATA disk or a SATA disk with a SAS 
disk.
• Removed — The physical disk or device has been removed. This state applies only 
to physical disks that are part of a virtual disk.
• Clear — The Clear task is being performed on the physical disk or device. A physical 
disk or device may also display the Clear state if the physical disk or device is a 
member of a virtual disk that is being slow initialized. For more information, see 
Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear and Slow And Fast Initialize.
• SMART Alert Detected — A SMART alert (predictive failure) has been detected on 
the physical disk or device. The physical disk or device may fail and should be 
replaced. This state applies to physical disks or devices attached to non-RAID and M.
2 device controllers.
• Unknown — The physical disk or device has failed or is in an unusable state. At 
times, the physical disk or device can be returned to a usable state by performing a 
Format, Initialize, Slow, And Fast Initialize task. If the Format, Initialize, Slow, And 
Fast Initialize task does not appear on the physical disk or device drop-down menu, 
then this disk or device cannot be recovered.
• Foreign — The physical disk has been moved from another controller and contains 
all or some portions of a virtual disk (foreign conguration). A physical disk or device 
that has lost communication with the controller due to a power loss, faulty cable or 
other failure event may also display the Foreign state. For more information, see 
Foreign Conguration Operations.
• Unsupported — The physical disk or device is using an unsupported technology or it 
may not be certied by your service provider. The physical disk cannot be managed 
by Storage Management.
• Replacing — A Replace Member Disk task is being performed on the physical disk 
or device. For more information, see Replacing A Member Disk and Enabling 
Revertible Hot Spare.
NOTE
: You can cancel the copying of data at any time during the 
execution of this task.
• Non-RAID — Non-RAID disks are exposed to the operating system unlike 
uncongured disks and enables usage of disk in direct pass-through mode. Maximum 
number of non-RAID disks that can be supported on H310 controller are 64.
You can perform the following tasks on the Non-RAID disks:
• Identied as locate option.
• Perform a blink or unblink operation.
• Select the disk as a bootable device.
You cannot perform the following tasks on the disk:
• Force disk oine or online.
Physical Disks Or Physical Devices
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