Re: Replacing disks in RAID

1999-12-25 Thread Jim Ford
>Power down the system >Replace the failed disk >Power up the system once again. >Use raidhotadd /dev/mdX /dev/sdX to re-insert the disk in the array >Have coffee while you watch the automatic reconstruction running All works a treat for me with a four disk Raid5 setup. I'm st

Re: Replacing disks in RAID

1999-12-20 Thread Urban Petry
Hi Jakob, > 6. Reconstruction > If you've read the rest of this HOWTO, you should already have a pretty good > idea about what reconstruction of a degraded RAID involves. I'll summarize: > Power down the system > Replace the failed disk > Power up the system once again. > Use ra

Re: Replacing disks in RAID

1999-12-19 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 02:05:24PM +0100, Marcin Zurakowski wrote: > Hi, > > I've got Redhat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.12 and raidtools-0.90. > > I've made a raid array (raid-5) from 3 disks (/dev/hda1, /dev/hdb1, > /dev/hdc1)-no spare disks. If the one disk (for expample /dev/hdb1) > fail everythin

Replacing disks in RAID

1999-12-19 Thread Marcin Zurakowski
Hi, I've got Redhat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.12 and raidtools-0.90. I've made a raid array (raid-5) from 3 disks (/dev/hda1, /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdc1)-no spare disks. If the one disk (for expample /dev/hdb1) fail everything will be ok. Then I want to replace this bad disk with new one. What should I do