Re: How does gmirror know of a faulty drive

2007-02-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 15:10, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ivan Carey wrote: > > In FreeBSD 5.3 I have set up 2 drives in RAID-1 format. > > How will I know if one of the drives is faulty such as either not working > > or > > > > has some lost sectors? > > > > Is it possib

Re: How does gmirror know of a faulty drive

2007-02-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
No answers? I just actually replied to a thread about this. Apparently there is no automatic demotion of a device to DEGRADED. I just had a provider error for a good 5 minutes of SCSI kernel messages (bad sectors, grown defects), without any automatic corrective action taken by gmirror(4)