From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 11 4:33:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9184637B401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 04:33:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from bca.ru (mail.bca.ru [195.98.32.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BAA143ED8 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 04:33:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dv@dv.ru) Received: from xkis.kis.ru ([195.98.32.200] verified) by bca.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.5) with ESMTP-TLS id 500241; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:33:41 +0300 Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:33:41 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Valdov X-X-Sender: dv@xkis.kis.ru To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Telling AMR controller to rebuild RAID5 through FreeBSD ... In-Reply-To: <20030110161343.M13366@hub.org> Message-ID: <20030111152824.K95606@xkis.kis.ru> References: <20030110161343.M13366@hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > We've just been informed that one of our drives has to be replaced, but in > order to do so, the machine has to be rebooted, since they can't initiate > the rebuild from FreeBSD ... its using one of the MegaRAID controllers ... > is this, in fact, correct, or do they just not know how to do it? I'd > rather have them hot-swap the drive and rebuild it without having to > shutdown the machine ... > We're using MegaRAID controller for about 2 years. Controller do rebuilding itself. You can just replace hotswap drive. -- Dmitry Valdov mailto:dv@dv.ru CCNP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message