On August 24, 2007 02:31 am Clayton Milos wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:57:22 +0400 > > > > "Artem Kuchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Um.. it is because i did not have a map of hot swap baskets to > >> conroller ports and i needed to check every driver basket to > >> understand which port it sits on. I have no choise, i think. > > > > I'm just going to highlight the importance of knowing which > > physical disk is which on your system. > > > > About a year ago I had to replace a hot-swappable disk from an > > array, but then realised I had no idea which physical disk it > > was as the map of the disks was rather helpfully *inside* the > > case. Due to the physical setup, I had no way or removing the > > cover without first powering down the server - which defeated > > the whole point of paying extra for hot-swap disks. > > > > So yeah, be sure to label your disk bays, but be sure to put > > those labels somewhere *useful*. > > > > -fr. > > Useful like on the front of the drive bays ;-) > The Areca cards have a nice function called drive identify that lights > up the selected drive's LED. I think the 3ware cards have it too.
That's only useful if the drive LEDs are configured to correctly match the port. :) We've had custom built servers with 4 drive bays arrive with the LEDs either not connected, or connected to different ports on the RAID controller than the drives were on. Very confusing until we started double-checking the connections when the servers arrived. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
