Re: Raid and the spare-disk - Forcing the spare disk into sleep-mode?

2005-11-19 Thread Nick Holland
Sebastian Rother wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I would like to know if the spare-disk (specified in the raid.conf of > raidctl) gets powered off until it's needed. > > As far as I understood the manpage the spare-disk is used to rebuild > the raid if a HDD fails. > > And example what happened to

Raid and the spare-disk - Forcing the spare disk into sleep-mode?

2005-11-18 Thread Sebastian Rother
Hello everybody, I would like to know if the spare-disk (specified in the raid.conf of raidctl) gets powered off until it's needed. As far as I understood the manpage the spare-disk is used to rebuild the raid if a HDD fails. And example what happened to a company I know: A company I know had 2