What type of mirroring? Hardware? Semi-hardware? Software? Gilboa On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 14:05 -0700, Mike McMullen wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running FC4 and using mirroring on 2 200GB Maxtor DiamondMax 9 EIDE drives. > > The drives are partitioned as /boot, swap and /. There are no spares in the system. > > Today smartd started reporting the following message: > > "The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: > > Device: /dev/hda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors > > For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages). > > You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation. > No additional email messages about this problem will be sent." > > I've received about 5 email messages like this so I am assuming 5 sectors > are starting to go since it says no additional messages will be sent. Is this > correct to assume? > > Is there anyway to salvage the drive and have it rejoin the mirror? If so, > how would someone who has not done this by hand do it? > > I have purchased a 200 GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA drive since > I also have 2 SATA connectors in the box to replace the failing EIDE drive. > > The reason for that being that the system boots from the 1st partition of the > failing drive. > > Can I mix the SATA partitions with EIDE partitions to create mirrors? > If so can someone point me to the idiot's guide for this? > > TIA, > > Mike > > Mike >
