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Galaxy G3G12 / G3G16 Installation and Hardware Reference Manual
142 Section 4 Maintenance with GAM
• Viewing Physical Drive Statistics
• Making Physical Drive Settings
• Clearing Stale and PFA Conditions
• Forcing a Physical Drive Offline or Online
•
Viewing a List of P.
• Be sure the unconfigured physical drive has adequate
capacity to replace the largest drive in the disk array.
To create a spare drive:
1. Click the Subsystem
icon in Tree View.
2. Click the Spare Drives icon.
3. Click the Create tab in Management View.
4. Select a spare type, Global or Dedicated.
Global can be used by any disk array. Dedicated can only be used by the assigned disk arrays
5. To make a revertible spare drive, check the Revertible box.
A revertible spare drive can be returned to spare drive status after it replaces a failed drive in a disk
array. See “Transition” in chapter 7 for more information.
6. In the Physical drives field, highlight the physical drive you want to assign as a spare drive in the
Available list and press the >> button to move the drive to the Selected list.
You can also double-click drives to move them.
7. If you selected a Dedicated spare drive, in the Dedicated to Disk Arrays field, highlight disk arrays to
which you want assign the spare drive from the Available list and press the >> button to move the array
to the Selected list.
You can also double-click arrays to move them.
8. Click the Update button.
Your choices are displayed under New Hot Spare Drives.
9. If you agree with the proposed choices, click the Submit button.
Deleting a Spare Drive
Note
If an existing spare drive has the wrong parameters for your
needs, click the Settings tab to change the parameters rather
than delete the spare drive and create a new one.
To delete a spare drive:
1. Click the Subsystem
icon in Tree View.
2. Click the Spare Drives
icon.
3. Click the Delete tab in Management View.
4. Check the box to the left of the spare drive you want to delete.
5. Click the Submit button.