With software RAID (or indeed any RAID formation) I strongly recommend you
break the RAID and re-add it at install time (both disks for thoroughness)
so you know what to do when it happens. Just power down and disconnect
power and cable from one of the disks, reconnect power & make sure it boots
to the second disk, then re-add it using the HOWTO (or the hardware RAID
controller bios in the case of hardware RAID). It's good to practice
'cause you might overlook something, particularly correct boot order
operation with software RAID.
At 12:30 AM 14/09/2001 +0000, Darrell May wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> > In case of a drive failure in e-smith software raid 1 what would be the
> > procedure to restore the system back to normal. Anybody has a How to?
>
>Found this document:
>
>http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
>
>Which states in Chapter 6:
>--------------------------
>- Power down the system
>- Replace the failed disk
>- Power up the system once again.
>- Use raidhotadd /dev/mdX /dev/sdX to re-insert the disk in the array
>
>Have coffee while you watch the automatic reconstruction running and
>that's it.
>--------------------------
>
>I believe /proc/mdstat may show the activity. I've not tried this
>myself. If anyone has a test system, using software RAID ready to go,
>how about giving this a try and reporting back your results :)
>
>Regards,
>
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>Darrell May
>DMC NETSOURCED.COM
>http://netsourced.com
>
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