# Managing Physical Drives

The LSI Storage Authority software lets you manage all the physical drives connected to the controller.

- Viewing Physical Drive Properties
- Locating Tape Drives
- Start and Stop Locating a Drive
- Making a Drive Offline
- Making a Drive Online
- Replacing a Drive
- Marking a Drive as a Missing Drive
- Replacing a Missing Drive
- Assigning Global Hot Spares
- Removing Global Hot Spares
- Assigning Dedicated Hot Spares
- Rebuilding a Drive
- Converting an Unconfigured Bad Drive to an Unconfigured Good Drive
- Removing a Drive
- Making Unconfigured Good Drives and Making a JBOD
- Erasing a Drive
- Erasing a Drive Securely
- Sanitizing a Drive