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Figure 76. Degraded Disk Array Warning Message

2

Press a key to continue.

3

If your degraded unit has a drive indicated as

Not in Use

, the drive may

still be usable. Try rebuilding with the

Not in Use

drive intact. Simply

select the unit (highlight it and press

Enter

) and then select the

Rebuild

Unit

button.

4

When the

Rebuild

confirmation screen appears, confirm that you selected

the correct unit by selecting

OK

.

5

Press

F8

to save your changes and exit 3BM

.

The unit will begin

rebuilding after the operating system finishes loading.

If the rebuild fails and you have no available drives, do one of the following:

If your system has hot swap bays, you can replace the failed or

Not In

Use

drive and rescan (Alt-R) the unit.

If your system does not have hot swap bays, power down the system and
replace the failed or

Not In Use

drive. Then power on the system and

restart 3BM.

Then follow these steps:

1

At the main 3BM screen, highlight an available drive to replace the
faulted drive and press

Enter

to select it.

An asterisk appears in the left most column to indicate the drive is
selected.

2

Press

Tab

to select the degraded unit and press

Enter

to select it.

3

Tab

to the

Maintain Unit

button and press

Enter

.

4

Select

Rebuild

from the pop-up menu and press

Enter

.