User's Manual

Contents 5
Monitoring Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Running a Patrol Read
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Monitoring Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
6 Maintaining and Managing
Storage Configurations
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Initializing Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Running a Consistency Check
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Scheduling a Consistency Check
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Scanning for New Drives
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Scanning for Foreign Configurations
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Clearing a Foreign Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Rebuilding a Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Rebuilding a Drive on a Dell SAS 5/iR System or
on a Dell SAS 6/iR System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Rebuilding a Drive on a Dell PERC 5/i System or
on a Dell PERC 6/i System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Making a Drive Offline or Missing
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Preserving Pinned Cache
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Upgrading the Firmware
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
7 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Pinned Cache State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Windows Installation Error Messages
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Linux Installation Error Messages
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Other Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager Messages
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