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Chapter 7 Maintenance Activities

Maintenance processes include the following activities, that you may need to perform on arrays:

• 7.1 Running a Logical Drive Initialization on page 185

• 7.2 Running a Logical Drive Consistency Check on page 186

• 7.3 Running a Manual Rebuild on page 187

• 7.4 Disk Scrubbing on page 188

• 7.5 Editing a WWN Table on page 188

• 7.6 Forcing a Physical Drive Online or Offline on page 189

• 7.7 Locating a Logical Drive, Physical Drive, or Enclosure on page 190

• 7.8 Updating a Controller’s Firmware on page 191

• 7.9 Reconditioning a Battery Backup Unit on page 194

• 7.10 Shutting Down a Controller on page 195

• 7.11 Repair Actions on page 196

7.1 Running a Logical Drive Initialization

Logical drive initialization offers the ability to run a full foreground initialization of logical drives at the time of your

choice, not just immediately following a new configuration. During the initialization process all data is cleared and

zeros are written to the disks.