User's Manual

Property Definition
Transition Indicates that the physical drive is changing from the spun down
state to spun up state.
Spun Up Indicates that the physical drive is in the spun up state.
Name Displays the name of the physical disk or device. The name
comprises of the connector number followed by the disk number.
State Displays the current state of the physical disk or device. Possible
values are:
• Ready — The physical disk or device is functioning normally. If
the disk is attached to a RAID controller Ready indicates that
the disk is available to be used by a virtual disk. When the
physical disk or device is used in a virtual disk, the state
changes to Online.
• Online — Indicates that the physical disk is part of a virtual disk
and is functioning normally. For more information, see Setting
Online And Offline.
• Degraded — The physical disk or device has encountered a
failure and is operating in a Degraded state.
• Failed — The physical disk or device has encountered a failure
and is no longer functioning. This state is also displayed when a
physical disk or device that is part of a redundant virtual disk is
offline or deactivated. For more information, see Setting Online
And Offline.
• Offline — The physical disk or device has failed or contains
dead segments. Check to see if the Remove Dead Segments
task appears on the physical disk drop-down menu. If it does,
perform a rescan of the controller (Rescanning The Controller)
and then remove the dead segment (Removing Dead
Segments) for the physical disk. If this task is not displayed,
then the physical disk or device cannot be recovered.
On the PERC 5/E controller, the Offline state indicates that the
disk is included in a virtual disk, but it is not receiving I/O. This
may occur when a user has set the disk to Offline. For more
information, see Setting Online And Offline.
• Rebuilding — Data from a redundant virtual disk is 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 applies only 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
Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear and 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
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