Re: SCSI or IDE
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:15, I. Forbes wrote:
> - If you have a "glitch" on a drive the raid will mark the partition
> as defective possibly when there is no permanent damage. You have to
> reboot the server before you can attempt to bring this partition back
> on line. Once rebooted you can attempt to re-sync the drives.
That is strange. On many occasions I have had a transient error or a failing
drive drop out of a RAID but then work fine when I ran raidhotadd...
> Be very careful to set-up and check your cron scripts. If a drive
> fails, you need the machine to send an e-mail to an address where you
> know it is going to be read and acted upon! You do not want that e-
> mail buried in 1000 other system warnings that get deleted without
> being read.
The raidtools2 package comes with a cron script that does well in this regard.
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