It seems Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 08:58 AM 4/2/02 +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > >If a disk in a RAID1 goes bad, the driver will continue to use the > >good half of the mirror, and log the fact that the mirror is now > >in degraded mode. You can then use atacontrol to detach the disk, > >add a new one, and use atacontrol to rebuild the array, all without > >having to take down the machine. If the last good disk fail, the driver > >will log that the array is broken, and return error on all accesses... > > > >And yes I'll add a get status/mode command :) > > Awesome! I just tried it on our test machine. > > raidtest2# atacontrol status ar0 > ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad8 ad10 status: READY > raidtest2# > > Also, I updated a few other boxes that have > > atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller> port 0xe000-0xe00f at device 7.1 on > pci0 > > and so far so good! > > Also, what would you recommend for hot swapable trays ?
The promise superswap enclosures, they are a bit pricy, but I support setting the LED color on the front for show the disk status, and you get get the fan speed/disk temperature/disk voltages form the superswap with atacontrol, very handy for servers :)... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
