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Drives in a dead state look similar to dead nodes, only they include a drive number and a node number. For example:
{ 1:0-11, 2:0-9,11, 3:0-11, 4:0-11, 5:0-11, 6:0-11, dead: 2:10 }
Dead drives can occur when a disk is simply unresponsive to any level of request from the operating system, or when a drive is removed from the node and replaced without starting a FlexProtect. On encountering a dead disk, contact Dell Support and run FlexProtect through the Job Engine to stripe away from that disk.