From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Susi Subject: Re: R: [dm-devel] - info about dm Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:22:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4739EB5A.9050102@cfl.rr.com> References: <003d01c8260d$27a8e6b0$27819296@wegaprise> Reply-To: "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <003d01c8260d$27a8e6b0$27819296@wegaprise> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: ataraid-list-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: ataraid-list-bounces@redhat.com To: "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions" Cc: 'device-mapper development' List-Id: dm-devel.ids 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.