Users Guide

Physical Disk Or Physical Device Tasks
To execute a physical disk or physical device task:
1 Expand the Storage tree object to display the controller objects.
2 In the Server Administrator window, under the system tree, expand Storage to display the controller objects.
3 Expand the enclosure or backplane object.
4 Select Physical Disks or Physical Devices object.
5 Click Information/Conguration on the controller Properties page.
6 Select a task from the drop-down menu.
7 Click Execute.
NOTE: Dierent controllers support dierent features. For this reason, the tasks displayed on the tasks drop-down menu
can vary depending on which controller is selected in the tree view. No Task Available is the only option in the drop-down list
box when no tasks can be performed because of controller or system conguration limitations.
Physical Disk Tasks
The following are the list of tasks that you can perform on a physical disk:
• Blinking And Unblinking A Physical Disk
• Removing Dead Segments
• Assigning And Unassigning Global Hot Spare
• Preparing To Remove
• Setting Online And Oine
• Rebuilding Data
• Cancelling A Rebuild
• Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear
• Enabling Revertible Hot Spare
• Performing Cryptographic Erase
• Convert To RAID Capable Disk
• Convert To Non-RAID Disk
Blinking And Unblinking A Physical Disk
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.
The Blink task allows you to nd a disk within an enclosure by blinking one of the light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on the disk. You can use this
task to locate a failed disk.
On most controllers, the Blink task cancels once you select Unblink. Select Unblink to cancel the Blink task or to stop the LED on the
physical device that is blinking indenitely.
NOTE
: The Blink and Unblink tasks are only supported for hotswap physical disks (disks that reside in a carrier). When using an
Broadcom PCIe U320 controller, the Blink and Unblink tasks apply to physical disks contained in carriers that can be inserted into
a server or an enclosure. If the physical disk is not contained in a carrier but is instead designed to be connected with a SCSI
cable (typically a ribbon cable), then the Blink and Unblink tasks are disabled.
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