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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:10:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
To:        Ivan Carey <icarey@bigpond.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How does gmirror know of a faulty drive
Message-ID:  <20070214150908.U59589@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org>
In-Reply-To: <000101c5929c$73643e30$0201a8c0@IVAN>
References:  <000101c5929c$73643e30$0201a8c0@IVAN>

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No answers?

I just actually replied to a thread about this.  Apparently there is no 
automatic demotion of a device to DEGRADED.  I just had a provider error 
for a good 5 minutes of SCSI kernel messages (bad sectors, grown defects), 
without any automatic corrective action taken by gmirror(4)

My original message was held of moderation.

~BAS

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ivan Carey wrote:

> In FreeBSD 5.3 I have set up 2 drives in RAID-1 format.
> How will I know if one of the drives is faulty such as either not working or
>
> has some lost sectors?
>
> Is it possible to have gmirror email me if there is a problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Ivan
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 	-lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
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