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Figure 6-26   Actions on internal storage
The actions available depend on the status of the drive or drives selected. Some actions can 
be run only on a set of them, and some are possible only for individual drives.
Action: Fix error
This action is only available if the drive selected has an error event that is associated with it. 
Select Fix Error to start the Directed Maintenance Procedure (DMP) for the selected drive. 
For more information about DMPs, see Chapter 13, “RAS, monitoring, and troubleshooting” 
on page 673.
Action: Take offline
Select Take Offline to take a drive offline. You must confirm the action, as shown in 
Figure 6-27.
Figure 6-27   Taking a drive offline
If a spare drive is available and the drive is taken offline, the MDisk of which the failed drive is 
a member remains Online. The spare is automatically reassigned. If no spare drive is 
available and the drive is taken offline, the status of the array of which the failed drive is a 
member becomes Degraded. Therefore, the status of the storage pool to which the MDisk 
belongs becomes Degraded as well.
The system prevents you from taking the drive offline if one of the following conditions is true:
/SM590000The first option was selected and no suitable spares are available.
/SM590000Losing another drive in the array results in data loss. 
A drive that is taken offline is considered Failed, as shown in Figure 6-28 on page 211.