From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 02:30:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12AB5106566C for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:30:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from ibctech.ca (v6.ibctech.ca [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF7C78FC0A for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:30:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 12138 invoked by uid 89); 19 Jun 2008 02:31:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?IPv6:2607:f118::5?) (steve@ibctech.ca@2607:f118::5) by 2607:f118::b6 with ESMTPA; 19 Jun 2008 02:31:11 -0000 Message-ID: <4859C527.7060507@ibctech.ca> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:32:07 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ryan.coleman@cwis.biz References: <2854.71.63.150.244.1213842322.squirrel@www.pictureprints.net> In-Reply-To: <2854.71.63.150.244.1213842322.squirrel@www.pictureprints.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Fixing" a RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:30:58 -0000 Ryan Coleman wrote: >> Ryan Coleman wrote: >>>> Ryan Coleman wrote: >> Oh, I completely forgot to ask... >> >> Does the RAID still operate even though one disk is bad? >> >> After all, that is the purpose of RAID-5. stripe, with parity. One >> fails, the other two (or N) keep right on going... >> >> Or, is it a RAID-5 card that you put into operation as a RAID-0 span? >> >> If the latter is the case, good luck ;) > > No, I'm not that stupid. :) My old job, we had the big LaCie drives and > one of the 4 250Gs in it would fail and they were f*ed. I went to replace > the drive right away so I wouldn't be in that situation. > > When I went to rebuild in the BIOS it failed at 2%, no matter what 250G > drive I put in to fill the spot. Hrm... I didn't implicitly attempt to call you stupid. I was asking a question, and laying out info for others that may not know as they follow the thread... Besides...if you are seriously considering a 7TB storage facility, then you already know that building a proper RAID solution should include controllers that are hot-swappable, and will rebuild the array either as soon as you pop a new drive in, or with a hot-spare, without having to reboot and waste three hours rebuilding via a BIOS software. Steve