Marking a Drive Offline or Missing
If a drive is currently part of a redundant configuration and you want to use it in another configuration, you can use the MegaRAID Storage Manager commands to remove the drive from the first configuration and change the drive state to Unconfigured Good.
ATTENTION After you perform this procedure, all data on that drive is lost.
1.
In the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu, select Go To>>Physical Drive>>Make Drive Offline.
The drive status changes to Offline.
2.
Select Go To>>Physical Drive>>Mark Drive as Missing.
The drive status changes to Unconfigured Good.
ATTENTION After you perform this step, the data on this drive is no longer valid.
3.
If necessary, create a hot spare drive for the virtual drive from which you have removed the drive. For information on creating a hot spare drive, see Creating Hot Spares.
When a hot spare is available, the controller rebuilds the data on the virtual drive. You can now use the removed drive for another configuration. If the MegaRAID Storage Manager software detects that a drive in a virtual drive has failed, it makes the drive offline. If this happens, you must remove the drive and replace it. You cannot make the drive usable for another configuration by using the Mark physical disk as missing and Rescan commands.
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