[OpenIndiana-discuss] Concerning replacing mirrored boot disks

2020-05-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup Running a couple months old OI update I use simple mirrored pairs for yrs now. This is not a commercial operation or even a very serious homeboy HOST. I had a disk failure some time ago that is one of the mirrored boot disks. I have yet to fix that. They were a pair of 700 GB disks I had on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Concerning replacing mirrored boot disks

2020-05-24 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 12:09:31PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > I use simple mirrored pairs for yrs now. > This is not a commercial operation or even a very serious homeboy HOST. I use mirrored pairs too. Disks do fail. The system just keeps on going in this configuration. > I had a disk failur

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Concerning replacing mirrored boot disks

2020-05-25 Thread Marc Lobelle
Hello, i have two comments having done something similar recently: 1. about the disk slots: for rotating disks, it is important to locate them in slots, but ssds are entirely enclosed electronic circuits so the can just be let loose (or attached say with double stick tape) anywhere in t