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Manual No. 775029 4-59
How Do I Change Physical Drive Status?
Certain status changes in physical devices are allowed in RAID EzAssist.
See Table 4-1 below:
Table 4-1. Allowable Physical Drive Status Changes
 WARNING
Be careful about changing online status to offline!
Under certain conditions, this will result in a failed
drive status and potential data loss.
Likewise, changing the status of an offline drive to
online will only return a drive to normal function if
it was functioning normally before. A failed
(“bad”) drive cannot be returned to normal
function by changing its status to online.
Current Drive Status ...Can Be Changed To...
Unconfigured Spare
Spare Unused (Unconfigured)
Online Offline
Offline Online