Chapter 13 — Drive Troubleshooting Using a Global Spare Drive
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4. ClickGlobal Spareforthepartitionthatcontainsthefaileddriveto
displaytheGlobalSpareUsagescreen.
Note: TheGlobal Sparebuttonisnotpresentifoneormoredrivesare
notconfiguredasGlobalSparesforthepartition(seeAssign
GlobalSpareDrivesonpage195).
5. ClickUse Sparenexttothedriveforwhichyouwanttosubstitutean
availableGlobalSparedrive.Waitforthelibrarytocompletethe
sparingoperation.
Notes: Whenyouselectthedrivetoreplace,theBlueScalesoftware
disablestheselecteddriveandconfiguresanavailableGlobal
SparedrivetoreportthesameWWNandserialnumberas
thedriveitisreplacing.Thefaileddrivecanthenberemoved
andreplacedthenexttimeyouarephysicallyatthelibrary.
IfyouhavemorethanoneavailableGlobalSparedriv e, the
libraryautomaticallyselectsadriveinnoparticularorder.
Figure 256 Click Use Spare for the drive you want to replace.