From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Jun 22 13:26:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12950 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:26:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA12848 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:26:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0yoCec-0000dL-00; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:53:26 -0700 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:53:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: alex@nac.net cc: Simon Shapiro , Chris Parry , freebsd-SCSI@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DPT support binaries - How to Setup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 alex@nac.net wrote: > Search the archives; there are about 10 instances of this in the past 2 > months. I've been on freebsd-scsi list a long time. The only instance was your system as I recall. > It is when the array is in degraded mode, and you try to boot. No. Done that here several times. However, you can't boot if the array is dead (RAID5 with two failed drives) but that goes without saying. I've seen an interesting scenario where a rebuild caused a marginal drive to fail, so you always want to try at least two simulated failures before bringing a new server online. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message