On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:58:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > As would auto-replacement of bad drives by hot spares. Usually the firmware of a raid card does that itself. If a drive is flagged hotspare, the raid card should automatically start the rebuild if a drive fails. You should never have to tell it to do that. If you had to tell it then it hardly qualifies as a hot spare. -- Len Sorensen