Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:12:52 -0800 From: David Newman <dnewman@networktest.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dealing with a failing drive Message-ID: <474A55D4.8000002@networktest.com> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCAEBPCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCAEBPCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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-----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-----
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