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SuperTrak EX Series User Manual
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A revertible hot spare can be transitioned back to spare status after it replaces a
failed drive in a disk array. See transit on page 224.
The hot spare drive must be of equal or greater size than the drive it replaces.
The spare drive must be the same media type, HDD or SSD, as the other
physical drives in the disk array.
Options
-a <action> Specifies the action to perform.
list (Default) Displays a list of hot spare drives.
add Adds new hot spare drives.
mod Changes hot spare drive settings.
del Deletes a hot spare drive.
-i <Spare Id> Specifies the ID of the spare drive.
-p <PD ID> Specifies the ID of the physical drive. Requires the -a add
option to configure a drive as a spare.
-d <DA ID or DA ID List>
Specifies the disk array ID. Requires the -a list option.
Displays a list of global spares and spares dedicated to
this disk array.
When used with other actions, it specifies the disk array
IDs to which this spare is dedicated.
-t <type> Specifies the type of hot spare drive.
g A global hot spare drive.
d A dedicated hot spare drive.
-r <revertible> Specifies whether the spare drive is revertible.
yYes.
nNo.
-s "<option>=<value>" Specifies options for the spare drive.
mediapatrol= Enables or disables Media Patrol.
enable
disable
Examples
spare
spare -a add -p 14 -t g -r y
spare -a mod -i 1 -t d -d 0,1 -s "mediapatrol=disable"
spare -a del -i 0