How to replace ataraid disks?
Phillip Susi
psusi at cfl.rr.com
Mon Dec 19 15:09:11 UTC 2005
I'm not sure what "ataraid" is. Are you using the dmraid utility? It
creates devices in /dev/mapper for me. Also what kind of raid array is
this? If it is a mirror then you should be able to replace the failing
drive and go into the bios raid setup program and rebuild it with the
new drive.
Cesare D'Amico wrote:
> Hi all, I have a server with a Promise TX2000 controller; I use ataraid
> in linux 2.4.26, so my partitions are accessible
> under /dev/ataraid/d0pX. Now SMARTd is finding some errors on one of
> the disks, so I want to replace it, but... how does the raid restore
> work? If I halt the machine, replace the disk and reboot, will the
> array be put in sync? Or what should I do after repartitioning the
> disk?
>
> Thanks in advance, ciao
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