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Preserved Cache State....................................................................................................................................................69
Security key errors............................................................................................................................................................69
Secured foreign import errors.................................................................................................................................. 69
Failure to select or configure non Self-Encrypting Disks non-SED................................................................ 69
Failure to delete security key....................................................................................................................................69
Failure of Cryptographic Erase task on secured physical disks........................................................................70
General issues.................................................................................................................................................................... 70
PERC card has yellow bang in Windows operating system device manager................................................ 70
PERC card not seen in operating systems............................................................................................................ 70
Physical disk issues........................................................................................................................................................... 70
Physical disk in failed state....................................................................................................................................... 70
Unable to rebuild a fault tolerant virtual disk........................................................................................................70
Fatal error or data corruption reported..................................................................................................................70
Multiple disks are inaccessible...................................................................................................................................71
Rebuilding data for a failed physical disk................................................................................................................ 71
Virtual disk fails during rebuild using a global hot spare......................................................................................71
Dedicated hot spare disk fails during rebuild......................................................................................................... 71
Redundant virtual disk fails during reconstruction.............................................................................................. 72
Virtual disk fails rebuild using a dedicated hot spare.......................................................................................... 72
Physical disk takes a long time to rebuild.............................................................................................................. 72
Drive removal and insertion in the same slot generates a foreign configuration event ............................72
SMART errors.....................................................................................................................................................................72
Smart error detected on a non–RAID disk............................................................................................................ 72
Smart error detected on a physical disk in a non–redundant virtual disk......................................................73
Smart error detected on a physical disk in a redundant virtual disk............................................................... 73
Replace member errors.................................................................................................................................................... 73
Source disk fails during replace member operation.............................................................................................73
Target disk fails during replace member operation............................................................................................. 74
A member disk failure is reported in the virtual disk which undergoes replace member operation........ 74
Linux operating system errors........................................................................................................................................ 74
Virtual disk policy is assumed as write-through error message....................................................................... 74
Unable to register SCSI device error message.....................................................................................................74
Drive indicator codes........................................................................................................................................................75
HII error messages............................................................................................................................................................ 75
Unhealthy Status of the Drivers.............................................................................................................................. 75
Rebuilding a drive during full initialization..............................................................................................................76
Chapter 10: Appendix RAID description........................................................................................77
Summary of RAID levels...................................................................................................................................................77
RAID terminology...............................................................................................................................................................78
Disk striping...................................................................................................................................................................78
Disk mirroring................................................................................................................................................................78
Spanned RAID levels................................................................................................................................................... 78
Parity data..................................................................................................................................................................... 79
Chapter 11: Getting help.............................................................................................................. 80
Recycling or End-of-Life service information............................................................................................................ 80
Contacting Dell.................................................................................................................................................................. 80
Locating the Express Service Code and Service Tag.............................................................................................. 80
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