Physical Disk tasks supported by the PERC software RAID controllers
| Physical Disk Task Name | PERC S140 | PERC S150 | PERC S160 |
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| Blink/Unblink | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Assign and Unassign Global Hot Spare | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Set Disk Cache Policy | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Export Log | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Convert to RAID capable disk | Yes | No | No |
| Prepare to Remove | Yes | Yes | Yes |
 | NOTE: For physical disks connected to software RAID controller, 512 MB of disk space is by default that is used by the controller for metadata.
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| NOTE: When you perform the
Prepare to Remove operation on the physical disk, the associated virtual disk is in a failed state.
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| NOTE: The operation failed to complete message is displayed, if you perform the
Prepare to Remove operation on the physical disk of Boot virtual disk or 2mounted virtual disk.
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| NOTE: The Prepare to Remove operation can be performed only on NVMe non-RAID drives.
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| NOTE: The Set Disk Cache Policy task is supported only on SATA drives and not on NVMe drives.
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