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Chapter 4: MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility
4-5 Hot Plug Support
MegaRAID BIOS CU supports hot plugging of disk drives. When you insert or remove a
disk drive, the following hot plug message appears:
A Drive Has Been Inserted/Removed. Configuration Updated.
Press ESC...
After you press E
SC the inserted or removed drive will be reflected in the list of drives
that appears in the configuration utility.
Obviously, you should not insert or remove a drive while you are defining a new virtual
drive or while an initialization or other process is running. The following information
describes how the CU handles hot plugging when various actions occur:
• If the P
HYSICAL DRIVE window or one of the CONFIGURATION windows is open when
you insert or remove a drive, the window will close when the hot plug message
appears.
• CU menus such as S
ELECT BOOT DRIVE, SELECT ADAPTER and VIRTUAL DRIVE will
completely or partially close when a drive is inserted or removed.
• If a Rebuild is in progress when you insert or remove a drive, the CU first displays
the message:
Rebuilding Of Drive Not Complete! Press Esc..
followed by the hot plug message.
If the Rebuild was not affected by this hot plug event, it continues to rebuild from
where it left off, provided that A
UTO RESUME is enabled; otherwise, the Rebuild starts
over from the beginning. If the rebuilding array was affected by the hot plug event,
the Rebuild aborts and the array status changes based on the hot plug operation.
• If an Initialization is in progress when you insert or remove a drive, the CU displays
the message:
Initialization of Array Not Complete! Press ESC..
followed by the hot plug message.
• If a consistency check is in progress when you insert or remove a drive, the CU
displays the message
CC Not Completed! Press ESC..
followed by the hot plug message.
4-6 Checking Data Consistency
The Check Consistency feature can be used on RAID 1 or RAID 10 virtual drives to
verify the data consistency between the mirrored physical drives. MegaRAID BIOS CU
automatically corrects any differences found in the data when a consistency check is
run.
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