https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/force-failover-on-hot-spare/m-p/2839740#M6474 Hi, i would like to force a data-transfer from a fail-predicted HDD to hot-spare on an 4M Raid Controller. What is the safest and simpliest way to do so? Identify the disk off or Reconfiguration Wizzard?<BR /><BR />Thanks. David. Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:49:07 GMT David Kuman 2002-11-06T10:49:07Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/force-failover-on-hot-spare/m-p/2839740#M6474 Hi, i would like to force a data-transfer from a fail-predicted HDD to hot-spare on an 4M Raid Controller. What is the safest and simpliest way to do so? Identify the disk off or Reconfiguration Wizzard?<BR /><BR />Thanks. David. Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:49:07 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/force-failover-on-hot-spare/m-p/2839740#M6474 David Kuman 2002-11-06T10:49:07Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/force-failover-on-hot-spare/m-p/2839741#M6475 Hi david,<BR /><BR />Hot Spare is not a physical disk. It is an amount of diskspace equal to the largest physical disk. The space will be used when a disk is bad or removed. When a disk is removed, the array will be rebuild. If there is not enough space to maintain a hot spare, the system will tell you (console and mail to root). <BR /><BR />So in your case the best thing is to remove the bad disk with a good one. Or at least, remove the bad disk.<BR /><BR />HTH<BR />Donald Fri, 08 Nov 2002 09:47:38 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/force-failover-on-hot-spare/m-p/2839741#M6475 Donald Kok 2002-11-08T09:47:38Z