Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-16 Thread Tim Judd
Grant Peel wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before dr

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Peel
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before driving to the NOC,

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: > > > Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this > thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. > > If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before > driving to the NOC, with a unrunnable

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-12 Thread Tim Judd
Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before driving to the NOC, with a unrunnable OS on a labeled disk, it seems silly. I propose: Do a typical insta

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Comments please. See above. jerry > > -Grant > > ----- Original Message - > From: "Jerry McAllister" > To: "Grant Peel" > Cc: "FreeBSD Questions List" > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:58 PM > Subject: Re: Replace S

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
re as Jerry mentions below. 7. Remove the da1, reboot and hopefully, rejoyce. Comments please. -Grant - Original Message - From: "Jerry McAllister" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions List" Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Replace S

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
Grant Peel wrote: !. Can I use a FreeBSD bootable installation disk (6.4) made from an ISO image, to boot my PC and make the filesystems on the 36GB drive, without actually installing FreeBSD? (Please feel free to tell me exactly how :-)). http://www.freesbie.org/ Except that site seems to be

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
Jerry, Thanks a Tera for the concise reply. Please see the answers below. - Original Message - From: "Jerry McAllister" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions List" Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Replace SCSI Drive On Wed, Ja

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:31:25PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > I currently have a SCSI drive that *may* be going bad on one of my production > servers. I have lots of backups :-) > > Scenario: > > The drive that is showing the occasion error, is a 76 GB Seagate SCSI 10K > spin driv

Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I currently have a SCSI drive that *may* be going bad on one of my production servers. I have lots of backups :-) Scenario: The drive that is showing the occasion error, is a 76 GB Seagate SCSI 10K spin drive. It is at the network center about 120 miles away. This drive is not using a