From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 21 13:10: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38C837B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:10:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from support.urchin.com (support.quantified.com [63.212.171.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C142F43FE0 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:10:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dsilver@urchin.com) Received: from danzig.sd.quantified.net (web.urchin.com [63.212.171.5]) (authenticated bits=0) by support.urchin.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1LLFoZH005412; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:15:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dsilver@urchin.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Doug Silver Organization: Urchin Software Corporation To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Adaptec 2100S Raid 5 question Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:09:36 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <3E569244.5070702@btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <3E569244.5070702@btc.adaptec.com> Cc: Scott Long MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200302211309.58549.dsilver@urchin.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a RAID 5 setup using 4 Seagate 18Gb drives, one drive failed so I=20 ordered another one but the model # was not exact, so it turned out that = the=20 capacity was less than 17522Mb that the others are at, so the raid will n= ot=20 rebuild. The frustration of buying a "18Gb drive"!! Is there anything I= can=20 do in the short term while I wait for the drive to be RMA'd and/or try to= =20 find that exact model? I even tried sticking in a spare 36Gb IBM scsi, b= ut=20 that didn't work at all -- I would have been surprised if it had, but I w= as=20 desperate ;) TIA --=20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Software Corp.=09http://www.urchin.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message