[cobalt-users] Qube3 Disk Failure

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys,

I've often wondered if RAID 1 in a Qube3 actually fails over transparently
and now I've just had a Qube3 send me the following ...

on 22/4/02 3:45 PM, root wrote:

> Active Monitor has detected recent changes in the state of your server
> appliance.
> For more details, please see the Active Monitor section of the Server Desktop.
> 
> Summary of changes:
> 
> * The primary hard drive has failed.  Please shutdown the server appliance and
> replace this drive with a new drive of identical size.  The failed drive
> (labeled A) is located near the edge of the server appliance.  It is the hard
> drive on the left side when facing the front of the server appliance.

Its no hassle inserting a replacement disk, but how dead is dead?

How fussy is the RAID software wrt a "failure"?

Is this a hard or a soft failure?

Is it possible to reformat the disk and reuse it or shouldn't the disk be
trusted again?

Cheers,  Malcolm

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