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Marking disks as spare

To mark hard disk drives as spare drives, do the following:

  1. Start the Setup Utility program. See Starting the Setup Utility program.

  2. Select System settings > Storage and press Enter.

  3. Select Intel RSTe SATA Controller and press Enter.

  4. Use the up and down arrow keys to select a Non-RAID physical disk in the Non-RAID Physical Disks field and press Enter.

  5. Select Mark as Spare and press Enter.

  6. When prompted, press Y to confirm the operation.
    Note
    Marking a hard disk drive as a spare drive will remove all data on the drive.
Note
If your server has one of the following Linux operating systems installed, continue with the corresponding actions:

  • For the Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.7 operating system, add the following line to the end of the /etc/mdadm.conf file and restart the operating system.

    POLICY domain=DOMAIN path=* metadata=imsm action=spare-same-slot
  • For the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.4 operating system, do the following:

    1. Add the following line to the end of the /etc/mdadm.conf file.

      POLICY domain=DOMAIN path=* metadata=imsm action=spare-same-slot

    2. Run the following commands as a root user.

      # chkconfig –s mdadmd on
      # /etc/init.d/mdadmd start