
Changing Status of Physical Device Forcibly
The function of changing status of a Physical Device forcibly can be used when you want to change the Status of a
Physical Device to Online or Failed forcibly for a maintenance job or another. The function may not be used in normal
operation.
The function of changing the status of a Physical Device forcibly is available only in the
Advanced Mode.
The system may not start if you forcibly change the status of the Physical Device used for
the system drive. Do not change the status of the Physical Device used for the system
drive forcibly.
The function of changing the status of a Physical Device forcibly may not be able to change
the status to the desired one depending on the status of the Physical Device (such as a
severe failure).
To Online Forcibly
To set the Status of a Physical Device to Online forcibly, use Make Online. The procedure of executing Make
Online is described below.
The consistency of Logical Drive will be lost if you forcibly change the status of the Physical
Device used for the Logical Drive.
RAID Viewer
Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer. Click a Physical Device with Status being
Failed on the Tree View. Then click [Make Online] on the [Control] menu.
Step 2 Displays the Warning message and the confirmation
message. Click [Yes], then Status of the Physical Device is
changed to Online.
Then click [No], without changing the status of the Physical
Device.
Step 3 After the Make Online succeeds, Status of the Physical Device is changed to Online.
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