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Subject: Re: gmirror HD failure detection
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Dave wrote:
> Hi,
>    I've got smartd going on a gmirror system, however when smartd starts 
> up it says it can't find the various drives. I've tried both the 
> autodetection line as well as specifying the individual drives. If this 
> does work i'd like to know about it as i believe i might have one 
> failing drive, but am not sure which one.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
> 


well as root I can certainly run smartctl -a /dev/ad4 (or /dev/ad6) so I assume 
smartd could.

I like the idea of using gmirror status -s , but I don't know what the results 
would be if one of the disks were going bad. Would it change from COMPLETE to 
DEGRADED suddenly?
-- 
Robin Becker