On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Sandy Drobic
Normally, a server with a hardware raidcontroller and hotplug enclosure is SAF-TE aware, each hdd slot has an activity and a failure led, so the raid controller that monitors the disks will activate the failure led if the drive does not work correctly.
Not being a big believer in raid controllers (for smaller sized shops any way), just having a hot spare in your array will indicate the problem. Most drives these days do have an onboard led for drive activity. After a failure and an automatic rebuild onto the hot spare the one not flickering with any system activity is the dead one. (and also the cold one if no lights are present). Any disk cabinet which would allow a hot drive change will also have repeater lights where you can see them. Even small shops with single servers running raid 1 can afford a third disk. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org