A physical disk drive property indicating the status of the drive. A physical disk drive can be in one of the following states:
Unconfigured Good
A disk accessible to the RAID controller but not configured as a part of a virtual disk or as a hotspare.
Online
A physical disk can be accessed by the RAID controller and is part of the virtual disk.
rebuild
A physical disk to which data is being written to restore full redundancy for a virtual disk.
failed
A physical disk that was originally configured as Online but on which the firmware detects an unrecoverable error.
Unconfigured bad
A physical disk on which the firmware detects an unrecoverable error; the physical disk was Unconfigured Good or the physical disk could not be initialized. Disks with a status of “Unconfigured bad” cannot be used for RAID configurations.
Missing
A physical disk that was Online, but which has been removed from its location.
offline
The drive is offline or absent. No actions can be performed on the drive until it is back online.
Global hotspare
The drive will be used to repair any array in the system that had a drive failure, if the failed drive is equal to, or smaller than the hot spare drive.
Ready
The drive is online and operating correctly.
Foreign
The drive is part of an array created on a different controller, or created within one enclosure and moved to another on the same controller. It can be used to create a new array after clearing configuration.
None
A physical disk with the unsupported flag set. An Unconfigured Good or Offline physical disk that has completed the prepare for removal operation.
copyback
A bad physical disk replaced by a good one, then hotspare will copyback data to the good one and change back to hotspare