Impending Drive Failure (Medium Data Availability Risk)

What Caused the Problem?

A drive is reporting internal errors that could cause the drive to fail. If this drive fails, the logical drives in the array will become degraded. The Recovery Guru Details area provides specific information you will need as you follow the recovery steps.

Caution
If a Logical Drive - Hot Spare in Use failure is also displayed in the Summary Area, always fix the Impending Drive Failure first.

Caution
Electrostatic discharge can damage sensitive components. Use a grounding wrist strap or other anti-static precautions before removing or handling components.

Important Notes

Recovery Steps

1

Do one of the following:

  • You can manually fail, remove, and replace the drive now. To do this, continue with step 2.

    OR

  • You can take no further action and wait for the affected drive to fail. You can then run Recovery Guru and fix the failure reported. You need to do nothing more in this procedure.

2

Check the status of the logical drives associated with the affected drive. To determine the associated logical drives, highlight the affected drive in the Physical View of the Subsystem Management Window and select View>>Associated Components.

  • All logical drives in the Logical View of the Subsystem Management Window should be Optimal before continuing with this procedure.
  • If any logical drives in the array currently show Operation in Progress , wait for all logical drives to change to Optimal before continuing.
  • If the logical drives change from Operation in Progress to any status other than Optimal, select Recheck to rerun the Recovery Guru and fix the failures reported.

3

Highlight the affected drive in the Physical View of the Subsystem Management Window and select Drive>>Fail. The associated logical drives become Degraded .

4

Remove the failed drive (its fault indicator light should be on).

5

Wait 30 seconds, then insert the new drive. Its fault indicator light may be lit for a short time (one minute or less).

6

Select Recheck to rerun the Recovery Guru to ensure that the failure has been fixed.