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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Hot Swap rebuild on SCSI disks.
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Edy Lie wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I have setup the following:
> 
> FreeBSD 4.8 and using Adaptec 2100s for the SCSI RAID 5.
> 
> Currently there are 5 harddisks which have been setup as RAID 5 and 1
> harddisk acts as hot spare.
> 
> Interestingly, is there any tool on FreeBSD which allows to rebuild the
> array on the fly or is it a must to reboot and goto Adaptec 2100s SMOR
> to rebuild? If latter is the only option it defects the purpose of HOT
> SWAP capabilities.

No, I don't think any such tool exists, and yes, it defeats the purpose.
If you find such a tool, please let me know so I can use it on my AMR
MegaRAID (Dell Perc 2/SC) RAID 5 array.

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