Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series - Status; Status of the Disk Array; Status of the Disk; BIOS Messages

Status
This section describes status of disk arrays and hard disks.
Status of the disk array
Here is a list of statuses for the disk array.
Table 4-23 Statuses for disk arrays
Status Description
Optimal Normal. The disk array is perfect in function.
Partially
Degraded
One hard disk fails in the RAID 6 disk array.
Degraded One hard disk fails in the RAID 1, 5, or 10 disk array. Or two hard disks
fail in the RAID 6 disk array.
Offline The disk array is inoperable because of either failures in multiple hard
disks in a redundant disk array or a failure in a hard disk in a non-
redundant disk array.
Status of the disk
Here is a list of statuses for the hard disk.
Table 4-24 Status of the disk
Status Description
Online Normal.
Offline/Failed A fault has occurred.
The disk is separated from the disk array due to a failure.
Rebuild Rebuilding is underway.
Global Hot Spare This is set as a global hotspare.
Dedicated Hot Spare This is set as a dedicated hotspare.
Unconfigured Good This is not used for a disk array.
Unconfigured Bad A fault has occurred.
The unrecognizable disk is restored to recognizable.
Missing A fault has occurred.
A "normal" disk has been removed.
BIOS messages
Here is a list of messages for MegaRAID WebBIOS displayed at system
startup.
MegaRAID WebBIOS for storage expansion blades
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