Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:30:15 -0500 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: replacing faulty disk in a gmirror Message-ID: <20091127193015.GC1855@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20091127163702.GA9156@xs4all.nl> References: <20091127163702.GA9156@xs4all.nl>
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:37:02PM +0100, Vincent Zee wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to replace a faulty disk in a gmirror mirror but > it fails. > > This machine contains two mirrors: mirror0 and mirror1 each > containing two disks of 500 GB. mirror1 is giving me trouble. > > The disk on channel 3 (ad6), which was identical to the disk on > channel 2 (ad4), was faulty and I replaced it with a larger disk > this morning. The new disk is a Western Digital 640 GB. > > The steps I took sofar: > > #gmirror forget mirror1 > > #gmirror insert mirror1 ad6 > > A "gmirror status" shows the new disk being added to mirror1. > It then starts to write to the new disk but stops after a few > seconds and when I do "gmirror status" again the new disk is > gone again. > > Any ideas? > I have several Sun X2100's, and the have a problem with the riser connector for the drives. I have seen behaviios like this, when I had a hardware problem. Might that be your issue? -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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