Promise Technology Pegasus R4i - Rebuilding a Disk Array

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To recreate your logical drive:
1. Identify the failed physical drive.
See “Locating a Physical Drive” on page 135.
2. Replace the failed drive.
See “Replacing a Drive Module” on page 135.
3. If the disk array had more than one physical drive, delete the disk array and re-create it.
See “Deleting a Disk Array” on page 137 and “Creating a Disk Array and Logical Drive with the
Wizard” on page 128.
4. Restore the data from your backup source.
Rebuilding a Disk Array
When you rebuild a disk array, you are actually rebuilding the data on one of its physical drives.
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physical drive, then perform a Rebuild manually.
See “Replacing a Drive Module” on page 135. To perform a manual rebuild:
1. Click on the Background Activities menu icon.
2. Mouse-over Rebuild and click the Start button.
3. From the Source Physical Drive dropdown menu, choose a Source disk array and physical
drive.
Arrays have an ID No. Physical drives have a Seq. No.(sequence number)
4. From the Target Physical Drive dropdown menu, choose a Target physical drive.
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button.
When the disk array is rebuilding:
• The disk array shows a green check icon and Rebuilding status.
• Logical drives under the disk array continue to show a yellow ! icon and Critical,
Rebuilding status.
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When the beeps stop, the rebuild is done.