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Clearing a stale or a pfa condition, Updating firmware on a physical drive, Learing – Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head User Manual

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This procedure is used to clear configuration data on a physical drive; or if the physical drive is stale or the has

errors putting it in PFA status.

Stale

– The physical drive contains obsolete disk array information.

PFA

– The physical drive has errors resulting in a prediction of failure.

Be sure you have corrected the condition by a physical drive replacement, rebuild operation, etc., first. Then

clear the condition.

To clear a

Stale

or a

PFA

condition:

1. Click the

Device

tab.

2. Click the

Physical Drive

icon.

3.

Click the physical drive you want, then click the

Clear

button.

If the physical drive has both a Stale condition and a PFA condition, the first click removes the Stale

condition. Click the

Clear

button a second time to remove the PFA condition.

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This feature applies only to PROMISE-supported physical drives. For a list of supported drives, go to

http://www.promise.com/support/.

If you have physical drives in your RAID system that are not PROMISE-supported, follow the firmware update

procedure from the drive manufacturer.