Drive Spin Up

The LSA Storage Authority software enables you to view information about drives. Drives must be spun up to view all of the drive information.

Perform the following steps to spin up the drives.

  1. Navigate to the Controller dashboard.
  2. Select More Actions > Power State Actions > Spin up drives.
    The Start/Spin-Up Drives window appears.
    Figure 1. Start/Spin-Up Drives
  3. Select the drive(s) you want to spin up.
  4. Click Spin-Up.
    Two warning dialogs appear.
  5. Click Yes for the following dialog.
    Starting or spinning up multiple drives can take some time. Are you sure you want to start or spin-up the drive(s)?