States for physical disks (pdisks)
The valid states for pdisks are Active, RWProtected, Failed, Missing, and Unknown.
- Active
- The disk is functioning correctly.
- RWProtected
- The disk is unavailable because of a hardware or a configuration problem.
- Failed
- The controller cannot communicate with the disk, or the pdisk is the cause of the disk array being in a Degraded state.
- Missing
- The disk was previously connected to the controller but is no longer detected.
- Unknown
- The state of the disk could not be determined.