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Replacing disk drives in a logical drive – Adaptec Storage Manager User Manual

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Chapter 15: Managing Controllers and Disk Drives

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Replacing Disk Drives in a Logical Drive

You can replace one or more disk drives in a logical drive. You may want
to do this to upgrade to larger disk drives, or to make disk drive size
uniform across the logical drive.

Caution:

If another disk drive in the logical drive fails during

rebuild (see

page 151

), you may lose data.

To replace a disk drive in a logical drive:

1

In the Physical Devices View, click the disk drive you want to replace.

2

Set the drive state to failed. (See

page 144

.)

3

Remove and replace the disk drive with one of equal or larger size.

4

Wait for the logical drive to rebuild. (See

page 151

.)

5

Repeat Steps

1

to

4

for all the disk drives you want to replace.

For information about solving disk drive problems, see

Recovering from

a Disk Drive Failure on page 147

.

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