We are using MD3220 as DAS, configured and managed using Powervault MDSM. Physical disks at slot 8,9,10 and 11forms disk group 3 in RAID 10 configuration. Recently at slot 10 the physical disk failed, and at same period disk 11 became "bypassed". Global hotspare at slot 20 is in use now which is sparing the bypassed disk at 11 (As seen in the Recovery Guru). The disk group status is "Degraded". Physical disk 10 SAA is "Yes" and that of 11 is "No". At this point we replaced the disk at 10 and it became optimal after some time and the disk group status also became optimal, but the bypassed disk (11) remained in that state. Now 10 is mirrored pair with 20 (global hot spare) and 20 is still showing sparing for disk at 11. Is it safe to replace 11 (bypassed disk) ? The Service action (removal) allowed status of disk 11 is still "No" which is confusing. Please help. Attaching some screen shots which might help.
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