Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:48:09 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID mirror really worked Message-ID: <20080114074736.L1166@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080113175319.K1468@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> References: <20080113175319.K1468@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org>
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> > I've got a Promise TX2300 SATA Raid controller that I use on my FreeBSD > fileserver at home. It uses ataraid. I've set up a simple two-drive mirror. > One of the drives has been sending me intermittent failure messages in the > nightly emails for nearly a year - no more than one or two a month. Last > night it finally croaked. The mirror broke, but it went into "degraded" mode > and kept right on chugging along with no service interruption. > Today I took down the system, replaced the bad drive, rebuilt the array using > Promise's BIOS tools (since that's how I built it originally), and everything > is back to normal. gmirror works too very good without any hardware :)
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