Spectra T950 - Replace a Drive

Chapter 15 — Maintaining the Drives Adding or Replacing a Drive
November 2016 User Guide—Spectra T950 Library
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Replace a Drive
Toreplaceadrivethatfailed,followtheinstructionintheSpectraT200,
T380,T680,T950,andTFinityDriveInstallationorReplacementprocedure.
Usethecableyoudisconnectedfromthefaileddrivetoconnectthenew
drivetoaswitchonthearbitratedlooporfabricwherethehoststhatuse
thedrivesreside.
Afteryoureplacethedrive,dothefollowingtoresumeoperation:
 IfyouusedtheGlobalSpareoptiontotemporarilyreplacethe
malfunctioningdrive,youcannowreclaimtheGlobalSparedriveso
thatitisagainavailableforuse(seeUndotheGlobalSpareDriveon
page400).Thelibraryautomaticallyswitchesallincoming
communicationstothenewdrive.
 IfyoudidnotusetheGlobalSpareoption,useyourstorage
managementsoftwaretorestartanybackupprocessesthatwere
runningtothereplaceddrive.Thisrestartensuresthatthesoftware
recognizesthedriveasworkingandavailable.
Figure 317 The Drives screen.
Important
Do not click Remove. This option removes the drive from the partition. When the
replacement drive is installed, it is not assigned to the partition from which the
malfunctioning drive was removed.
If you click Remove and the selected drive is the only drive in the partition, the
partition is deleted.