From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 01:31:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353A037B401 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:31:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02FA143F3F for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:31:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gaml@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 20525 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2003 08:31:13 -0000 Received: from dclient217-162-135-22.hispeed.ch (HELO gaxp1800.root.li) (217.162.135.22) by 0 with SMTP; 10 Jul 2003 08:31:13 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:31:28 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62i) Educational X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <27520468234.20030710103128@buz.ch> To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: (Re)building a RAID 1 array on the fly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gabriel Ambuehl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:31:16 -0000 Hi, I was wondering about the correct procedure to (re)build a Highpoint 370 (i.e. using ata(4) based RAID array while the server is running. I obviously can't take a production machine down for the 2hours it takes to initialize the RAID in the BIOS and I don't want to risk losing any data there, either. Any pointers would be very much appreciated. Regards, Gabriel