The physical disk is not displayedThis error might be because:1 The controller cannot communicate with the physical disks.2 A cable might be loose or defective.3 The physical disk might be a SAS drive.Re-seat the physical disks in the backplane and check their cables.Insufficient free space available on the selected physical disksThere must be sufficient available free space on the physical disk used by the virtual disk.Incorrect number of physical disks selected for the desired RAID levelFor details about RAID levels and the allowable number of physical disks used with each RAID level, see understanding RAID levels in RAIDTechnology Guide at dell.com/support/manuals.The desired physical disk is unavailableDetermine whether the physical disk:1 Is a dedicated hot spare and unavailable for use in another virtual disk.2 Is full or has insufficient available capacity.The system already has a maximum of 16 virtual disksDelete unused virtual disks.CAUTION: Deleting a virtual disk destroys all data on the virtual disk.A virtual disk is in a degraded stateIf the virtual disk is in a degraded state, check the following causes:1 A physical disk was removed.2 Physical or mechanical problems with the physical disk.3 The virtual disk has lost redundancy.4 Corrupted metadata in the virtual disk.A physical disk was removed1 Install the original physical disk if it was inadvertently removed, or replace it with a new or used physical disk.2 Initialize a new physical disk. Perform a Rescan for all physical disks that are replaced.3 If the physical disk was not removed, check that its cables are correctly installed.Troubleshooting your system 51
