From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 12 21:15:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6E916A41F for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:15:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kwoody@citytel.net) Received: from ns3.citytel.net (ns3.citytel.net [209.145.111.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F8EE43D45 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:15:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kwoody@citytel.net) Received: from pop.citytel.net (pop.citytel.net [204.244.98.50]) by ns3.citytel.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1209A8C8 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:15:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:17:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Keith Woodworth To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050812141643.I55496@pop.citytel.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: RAID Failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:15:36 -0000 Ive got an old Dell 4400 box with an old PERC2 RAID controller. Looks like we've had a drive failure and the docs and stuff are long gone on this machine. Before my time. Machine is still running happily but I dont know which partition this drive is part of. / and /usr are RAID1 /var is RAID1 /var/mail is RAID5 with 1 hotstandby. I think its probably part of /var/mail as those drives are 18GB and /var/mail is quite a large partition. Ive not had a drive fail in a raid config before. Whats going to happen when I reboot this machine? From the docs Ive found online for this machine it has hot swap drives but Ive not tried it on this machine. What would happen if I pull the drive out since its hotswappable? I dont think Ive got another drive handy at the moment either thats 18GB, only a few 9GB drives. Thanks, Keith.