From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak,
Highpoint 370) related discussions" <ataraid-list@redhat.com>
Cc: 'device-mapper development' <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: R: [dm-devel] - info about dm
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:22:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4739EB5A.9050102@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003d01c8260d$27a8e6b0$27819296@wegaprise>
Vega Forneris wrote:
> 1) I need to change an HD which has problems...here the steps I guess
> from what I read in these days:
> - halt the machine (ok, ok it's obvious ;-P )
> - change the faulty HD
> - boot
> - when BIOS starts the RAID manager, enter and rebuild the RAID (1:
> mirror)
> - after the rebuilding, everything should be ok.
>
> ...is it correct?
Yes... at least if your bios actually starts the rebuild process instead
of just marking the array as needing rebuilt and relying on the OS to do
it.
> 2) I have a machine with 2 HD SATA, on the first we have the OS
> installed (and working!), the second is blank (just added), I want to
> create a RAID 1 (mirror) of the whole disk:
> - ...
> I don't want to guess ;-P
The same way you did it the first time: in the bios. Doing so will
destroy the existing data on the drive though, so you will want to
backup first.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-13 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-07 13:51 - info about dm Vega Forneris
2007-11-09 16:37 ` [dm-devel] " Luca Berra
2007-11-12 21:15 ` Phillip Susi
2007-11-13 15:52 ` R: " Vega Forneris
2007-11-13 18:22 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2007-11-14 10:57 ` R: " Vega Forneris
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