On Nov 27, 2007, at 8:24 PM, firmdog@gmail.com wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007 7:03 PM, Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 27 November 2007 01:08:49 pm firmdog@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Why was the device removed completely?
>>>
>>>
>>> Can I simply do this? (want to be sure as this box is remote)
>>>
>>> gmirror forget data
>>>
>>> atacontrol attach ata0
>>>
>>> gmirror insert data ad0
>>
>> IDE devices generally aren't hot swappable, so you're going to have
>> to
>> take
>> the box down to replace the failed drive (that's why it detached
>> from the
>> bus). Once you do that you can rebuild the gmirror.
>>
>
>
> I don't want to hot swap...I want to get the existing bad drive back
> into
> the mirror and see how long it lasts before gmirror breaks again.
>
> Can I use atacontrol to get the drive back in the system?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
You can, only if the two drives are on different channels. If you
have ad0 and ad1, you're probably out of luck.
-----
Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks
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