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Array critical – Promise Technology FastTrak SX Series Version 4.4 User Manual

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Promise Array Management

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Array Critical

When a disk drive fails on a fault-tolerant array (RAID 1, 0+1 and 5) for any
reason, the Array goes Critical. The array can still read and write data but fault
tolerance has been lost.

An Array Critical

icon displays in Tree View and the alarm (if enabled) beeps

quickly to call your attention to the condition.

Figure 72. An Array in Critical condition highlighted in Tree View (left)

and shown in red in Information View (right).

Your first action is to identify which disk drive has failed.

1. Click on the Controller

icon to expand it.

2. Click on the Array

icon to expand it.

3. Observe and compare the disk drives under the Controller with those under

the Array.

Figure 73. The drives under the Controller should match those under the

Array.

Drives 1, 2 and 3 are assigned
to this array.



Only drives 1 and 3 appear in
the array.
Drive 2 is suspect.