Re: Replacing a Disk that is "About to Fail" -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Replacing a Disk that is "About to Fail"
From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:23:22 -0500
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James Lampert wrote:

I've done plenty of drive swaps, but I've never been given that kind of advance warning. Usually the first I hear of it is when the drive fails and mirroring gets suspended.

But it's the same deal for me. I can wait until the error occurs, of course, but I have the same problem. It tells me the disk has failed. So I power down, swap the disk, power back up and then I'm in the same boat... fiddling through SST screens until I can figure out how to convince the OS that I actually replaced the drive. Only then can I add it and rebuild the RAID set. I'm just wondernig if there's a pre-swap step I have to do to tell the machine it's going to get a new drive. If not, I'll just yank it now and move forward. The messages are getting more frequent...

Joe

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