Physical Disk is Offline or displays an error status
A physical disk may display an error status if it has been damaged, is offline, or was a member of a virtual disk that has been deleted or initialized. The following actions may resolve the error condition:
- If a user has changed the status to Offline, then return the disk to Online status by performing the Online disk task.
- Investigate whether there are any cables, enclosure, or controller problems preventing the disk from communicating with the controller. If you find a problem and resolve it and disk does not return to Online or Ready status, reboot the system.
- If the disk is damaged, replace it.