On Wed, 26 May 1999, Tal Lichtenstein wrote:
> I just installed RedHat 6.0 (which contains kernel v2.2.5) on a dual Pentium
> Pro machine.
> The computer has a 2940UW SCSI controller with 3 external 9GB disks.
>
> Each disk has a 130MB swap partition and a 8.6GB Linux partition.
> The three Linux partitions are configured as a raid 5 device /dev/md0.
> After defining the device, making an ext2 filesystem on it and waiting for
> it to synchronize, I wanted to check the setup: I turned off power to one of
> the disk drives while performing a write operation to /dev/md0.
>
> I immediately got a message from the kernel that the disk failed and that
> the RAID device is working in degraded mode, which is OK. Now, I want to
> simulate installing a new disk drive.
>
> From all the HOWTOs, I saw that I need to use ckraid. However, in 2.2.5
> there is no ckraid: The man page says that "this work is now done by the
> kernel", whatever that means.
> Anyway, I powered on the other disk. Nothing happened. I tried to raidstop
> and raidstart the disks and still nothing happened - it sees the drive as
> faulty and continues in degraded mode.
>
> What is the correct procedure to replace a failed drive?
There is utility called raidhotadd and raidhotremove.
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-<From the Linux-quote-collection>-
What's this script do?
unzip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; umount ; sleep
Hint for the answer: not everything is computer-oriented. Sometimes
you're in a sleeping bag, camping out with your girlfriend.
