Fixing a degraded mirror

[Gilboa Davara]

What type of mirroring?
Hardware?
Semi-hardware?
Software?

Gilboa

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 14:05 -0700, Mike McMullen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am running FC4 and using mirroring on 2 200GB Maxtor DiamondMax 9 EIDE drives.
> 
> The drives are partitioned as /boot, swap and /. There are no spares in  the system.
> 
> Today smartd started reporting the following message:
> 
> "The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
> 
> Device: /dev/hda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> 
> For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).
> 
> You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
> No additional email messages about this problem will be sent."
> 
> I've received about 5 email messages like this so I am assuming 5 sectors
> are starting to go since it says no additional messages will be sent. Is this
> correct to assume?
> 
> Is there anyway to salvage the drive and have it rejoin the mirror? If so,
> how would someone who has not done this by hand do it? 
> 
> I have purchased a 200 GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA drive since
> I also have 2 SATA connectors in  the box to replace the failing EIDE drive.
> 
> The reason for that being that the system boots from the 1st partition of the
> failing drive.
> 
> Can I mix the SATA partitions with EIDE partitions to create mirrors?
> If so can someone point me to the idiot's guide for this?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Mike
> 
> Mike
>