Avago Technologies MegaRAID SATA 150-4 (523) - Manual (Page 127)

Reclaiming Hot Spare Disks 5-25
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5.5.6 Initializing Logical Drives
Select the adapter from the Adapter box. Select the logical drives you
plan to initialize. Select Initialize from the Logical Drive menu.
The Initialize screen has a separate window for each logical drive. A bar
graph displays the progress of the initialization. Click Abort if you want to
stop the initialization.
Repeat this process for each adapter in the system.
5.5.7 Checking Rebuild Rate
Select the correct adapter from the Adapter box. Select Rebuild Rate
from the Adapter menu. If there is more than one adapter in the system,
click each adapter and check the rebuild rate. The rebuild rate is not
affected when you clear the configuration.
5.5.8 Exiting the Power Console Plus Utility
Select Exit from the Configuration menu to quit the Power Console Plus
utility.
5.6 Reclaiming Hot Spare Disks
To reclaim a hot spare disk while running the Configuration Wizard,
select the hot spare disks you want to reclaim. Click the Reclaim button
on the Array Definition screen. The Power Console Plus utility changes
the selected hot spare physical drives to the
READY drive status.
To reclaim hot spare disks during normal operation, select the drive and
right-click the mouse button. Select Tools and select Fail Drive. The
Power Console Plus utility changes the state of the selected drives to the
READY state.