On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 12:37, Jeremy Browne wrote: > Quick quesiton: > I have a 10-drive RAID 5 and one of the drives failed. So, I swapped it out, > followed the instructions and everything, and not it's in the process of > rebuilding the array (I think). The lights are flashing on 9 out of ten of > the drives.
Is this hardware or software? On either system, the rebuild isn't automatic, I don't think. I think you have to tell it to start rebuilding. > > How long should this take? Each drive is 160GB, and there was about 15 GB > total on the array when the drive failed. Many hours would be my guess. Just a plug for raid/5 plus a hot spare -- the rebuild on the spare takes place immediately, automatically. Then you just replace the dead drive and it becomes the spare. Michael > > -jeremy > > _________________________________________________________________ > Browse styles for all ages, from the latest looks to cozy weekend wear at > MSN Shopping. And check out the beauty products! http://shopping.msn.com > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
