dealing with a failing drive

[David Newman]

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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

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