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GNR-3000 System Administrator’s Manual
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Trouble-shoot the Disk Drives
Normally, the status of a working volume appears “Healthy”.
This chapter will provide simple guidelines for dealing with most-happening abnormal volume
issues.
Volume Status Possible Cause Solution
The volume is in
Healthy (at Risk)
status
Windows has found some
bad sectors on its
underlying disk.
Run a diagnostic check using the disk
manufacturer’s software tool, back up the
data on this disk, and replace it with a
new one as soon as possible.
 Replace the Disk
The volume is in
Failed status
One of the underlying disks
has gone abnormal, which
led to the failure of this
volume; this also indicates
data loss, meaning there is
no way to recover the
recordings not saved during
this period,
1. Make sure the all the disks are in
Online status.
 Reactivate the Disk
 Check the Physical Connection
 Replace the Disk
2. After all the disks are Online, this
volume should return Healthy. If not,
try to reactivate it manually.
 Reactivate the Volume
The Volume is in
Failed
Redundancy
status
One of the disks in a
mirrored volume has failed;
the recording is still ongoing
though this volume is
currently not fault tolerant.
1. Make sure the underlying disks are all
Online.
 Reactivate the Disk
 Check the Physical Connection
 Repair the Mirrored Volume
2. After the disk returns to Online, this
volume should start repairing itself by
resynchronizing
 Volume Resynchronization
3. If this volume is still in Failed
Redundancy status, try to reactivate
it manually.
 Reactivate the Volume