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Returns drive 6 to spare status
WhentheAutomaticTransitionisnished,physicaldrives1,2,3,and4belongtothediskarrayand
physicaldrive6isarevertiblesparedrive.Theoriginalcongurationisrestored.
Manual Transition
If you wanted to use the drive in slot 5 as a member of the disk array, rather than the drive in slot 3, you
would run the Transition function manually. See “Running a Transition on a Spare Drive” on page 71.
WhentheManualTransitionisnished,physicaldrives1,2,4,and5belongtothediskarrayand
physical drive 6 is a revertible spare drive.
Atthispoint,youwouldreplacethedriveinslot3.Thenewdriveinslot3remainsuncongureduntilyou
assign it to a disk array or as a spare.