From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 05:12:59 2007 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 49F8516A420 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:12:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dnewman@networktest.com) Received: from mail.networktest.com (mail.networktest.com [207.181.8.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DCA313C45D for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:12:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dnewman@networktest.com) Received: by mail.networktest.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id F162C78C51; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:12:58 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on mail.networktest.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_PBL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.2.3 Received: from mose.local (cpe-75-82-195-55.socal.res.rr.com [75.82.195.55]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.networktest.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7799C78C4D; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:12:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <474A55D4.8000002@networktest.com> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:12:52 -0800 From: David Newman Organization: Network Test Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dealing with a failing drive 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: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:12:59 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/07 9:08 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > There are two physical disks in the server. bus 1 target 0 and > bus 1 target 1. Those ARE the physical disks. If one of them > has failed instead of: > > Sync, Ultra2, Wide - Configured in a logical volume. > > you will see something like: > > Sync, Ultra2, Wide - Unconfigured > > or nothing at all. Cool, thanks. Your output and mine are virtually identical. Now I get what you mean by running idacontrol periodically and grokking the output to verify both disks are still in the array. > > It is normal for idacontrol to generate soft write errors. The > developer knows about this. There's really no easy way to make > it not happen. It doesen't hurt anything, however. OK, good to know. thanks much! dn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHSlXUyPxGVjntI4IRAlbxAJ0aZDSOeyrTIoEVtKOZd5UMbDMx9QCdHP8I TAh9zWa+2cUlE5Qh2qfks2Y= =iEK3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----