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Physical Disks or Physical Devices 195
Rebuilding—Data from a redundant virtual disk is currently
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 only applies 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 Clear
Physical Disk and Cancel Clear and Format and Initialize;
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
controllers.
Unknown—The physical disk or device has failed or is in an
unusable state. In some cases the physical disk or device can
be returned to a usable state by performing an Initialize task.
If the 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 portion of a virtual disk
(foreign configuration). 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.
See Foreign Configuration Operations for more information.
Unsupported—The physical disk or device is using an
unsupported technology or it may not be certified by Dell.
The physical disk cannot be managed by Storage
Management.
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