RAID Failure

From: Keith Woodworth (kwoody_at_citytel.net)
Date: 08/12/05

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    Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:17:01 -0700 (PDT)
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    Ive got an old Dell 4400 box with an old PERC2 RAID controller. Looks like
    we've had a drive failure and the docs and stuff are long gone on this
    machine. Before my time.

    Machine is still running happily but I dont know which partition this
    drive is part of.

    / and /usr are RAID1
    /var is RAID1
    /var/mail is RAID5 with 1 hotstandby.

    I think its probably part of /var/mail as those drives are 18GB and
    /var/mail is quite a large partition. Ive not had a drive fail in a raid
    config before.

    Whats going to happen when I reboot this machine? From the docs Ive found
    online for this machine it has hot swap drives but Ive not tried it on
    this machine.

    What would happen if I pull the drive out since its hotswappable? I dont
    think Ive got another drive handy at the moment either thats 18GB, only a
    few 9GB drives.

    Thanks,
    Keith.

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