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Galaxy G3G12 / G3G16 - Installation and Hardware Reference Manual
158 Section 5 Management with CLU
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Physical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the physical drive of your choice and press Enter.
3. Highlight Physical Drive Statistics and press Enter.
Clearing Stale and PFA Conditions
The Clear Stale and Clear PFA functions only appear when those conditions exist on the physical drive. To
clear a Stale or PFA condition on a physical drive:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Physical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the physical drive of your choice and press Enter.
3. Highlight Clear Stale or Clear PFA and press Enter.
If a physical drive is still online and shows a PFA error but “Clear PFA” does not appear, use PDM to copy
the data to a new physical drive. Go to Disk Array Info and Settings.
If a physical drive is offline and shows a PFA error, rebuild the disk array. Go to Disk Array Info and Settings.
After rebuilding, the drive will show Stale. Run Clear Stale then run Clear PFA.
If the physical drive with a PFA error is a spare, you must delete the drive as a spare, then Clear PFA will be
available.
After you clear a PFA error, watch for another PFA error to appear. If it does, replace the physical drive.
Forcing a Physical Drive Offline or Online
This function enables you to force an:
• Online physical drive to go Offline
• Offline physical drive to go Online
The Force Offline/Online function appears only for physical drives that are assigned to disk arrays.
Caution
Forcing a physical drive offline or online is likely to cause data
loss. Back up your data before you proceed. Use these functions
only when required.
To force a physical drive offline or online:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Physical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight Global Physical Drives Settings and press Enter.
3. Highlight the physical drive of your choice and press Enter.
4. Highlight Force Offline or Force Online and press Enter.
5. Press Y to confirm.
Locating a Physical Drive
This feature helps you identify a physical drive within the Galaxy3G enclosure you are working with through
the CLU. To locate a physical drive:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Physical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight Global Physical Drives Settings and press Enter.
3. Highlight the physical drive of your choice and press Enter.
4. Highlight Locate Physical Drive and press Enter.
The drive carrier LEDs on the front of the Galaxy3G will blink for one minute.