User Guide

AMD-RAIDXpert2 User Guide
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Safety Precautions
Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Safety Precautions
1.1 General
This section includes general safety precautions and specific RAIDXpert2 cautions. Read and
keep this user manual for future reference.
1.2 Safety Definitions
CAUTION: Indicates that failure to follow directions could result in damage to equipment or
data.
IMPORTANT: Provides clarifying information or specific instructions.
Note: Provides additional information.
TIP: Provides helpful hints and shortcuts.
1.3 Caution Messages
This section lists the Caution messages that appear in the book.
1.3.1 Caution Messages About Disks
CAUTION: Assigning a dedicated spare does not reserve space on the disk. Therefore, an
automatic restore is not guaranteed if a disk fails. If a disk fails, make space on the
disk for the fail-over to complete, or assign a different disk with enough space. If a
dedicated spare is assigned and a disk fails, the restore process starts automatically,
if there is enough space available on the dedicated spare.
CAUTION: If a disk is part of an AMD-RAID array, the disk cannot be selected for initialization.
To initialize the disk anyway, delete the AMD-RAID array. Data on the disk is deleted
during initialization so ensure the correct disks are chosen to initialize.
CAUTION: A legacy disk can contain valid data. When a legacy array is deleted, or when its
corresponding legacy disk is initialized, the data is lost.
CAUTION: When a disk is initialized, all data on the disk is lost.
1.3.2 Caution Messages About Arrays
CAUTION: Deleting an array permanently destroys all data that is on the array. This action
cannot be undone and it is very unlikely the data can be recovered.