Hardware User's Guide

26 Intel® RAID Controller RS25SB008 Hardware User’s Guide
RAID Virtual Drive Status
Table 12. RAID Virtual Drive Status
RAID Controller Drive Limitations
Only drives that comply with the SAS and SATA specification extensions are supported.
SAS Bus and ID Mapping
Devices on the SAS bus are persistently mapped based on a SAS address.
Hot Spare HOTSP A physical drive that is configured as a hot spare.
Failed FAILED A physical drive that was originally configured as
Online or Hot Spare, but on w
hich the firmware
detects an unrecoverable error.
Rebuilding REBUILD A physical drive to which data is being written to
restore full redundancy for a virtual
drive.
Unconfigured Bad Unconfigured Bad A physical drive on which the firmware detects an
unreco
verable error
; the physical drive was Uncon-
figured Good or the physical drive could not be
initialized.
Missing Missing A physical drive that was online, but which has been
removed from its location.
Offline Offline A physical drive that is part of a virtual drive but
which
has invalid data as f
ar as the RAID configura-
tion is concerned.
None None A physical drive with an unsupported flag set. An
Unconfigured Good or O
ffline physical drive that has
completed the 'prepare for removal' operation.
Drive State Code Description
Drive State Code Description
Optimal Optimal The drive operating system is good. All config-
ured drives are online.
Degraded Degraded The drive operating condition is not optimal
because one of the configured drives ha
s failed
or is offline.
Offline Offline The drive is not available to the operating system
and is unusable.