## Setting a PFA drive to defunct

You can use this action only on a physical drive that reports a PFA error and is p art of an array. In IBM enclosures, if a physical drive is part of an array you must set the drive to defunct before removing the drive from the enclosure. Doing so eliminates the risk of losing data. After you replace the physical drive, you can can rebuild the affected array.

Attention: | (For non-RAID level-x0 logical drives) If a logical drive is in a critical state and you choose to use this action on a PFA-reporting drive, the logical drive state will change to offline. (For RAID level-x0 logical drives) If a logical drive is in a critical state and you choose to use this action on a PFA-reporting drive, the logical drive state might change to offline.

1. Click the physical drive from the Main Tree.
2. Click Actions --> Set drive state to defunct. A window opens to warn that this action might corrupt data.
   Note: If the logical drive that contains this physical drive is already offline, the ServeRAID Manager does not display this warning because the data is already corrupt. Continue to step 4.
3. Click Yes. The ServeRAID Manager sets the drive status to defunct.
4. Replace and rebuild the defunct physical drive.