Re: boot process glitch due to missing 2nd disk

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At Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:40:25 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 16:26 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> 
> > 
> > A PowerEdge with plain old SATA disks will complain about a missing disk
> > as well -- we had a disk die and everytime it booted while we waited for
> > the replacement it would stop complaining that the disk was missing (we
> > had software RAID and were able to stay up with a 'degraded' RAID set
> > for the week or so it took to get the replacemnt).
> ---
> Which makes me wonder why would you ever shut it down in the first
> place?  I sure would not wait a week on a disk replacement much less
> more than 24 hours.

First of all WD was not going to send us a new disk unless we sent the
old one in first -- the disks are not in hot swap bays, so I had
'remove' the bad disk from the RAID sets and shut down the machine to
remove it.

Second, we had a couple of power failures (yes, we have a UPS, but that
is only good enough for a graceful shutdown, not for an extended power
outage).

The machine was only shutdown because we *had* to shut it down.

The server is not a 'critical' server, in the sense that it has to have
near 100% uptime.  It is not public facing server in that sense.

> 
> John
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