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