On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 02:40:19PM -0700, Mike McMullen wrote: > I am running FC4 and using mirroring on 2 200GB Maxtor DiamondMax 9 EIDE > drives. This should be posted to the fedora list. > 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 > > 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. That's the tricky part. Boot into rescue mode (from your first CD), mount your drive without the boot partition and run grub-install. > 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? Software mirroring doesn't care about the underlying hardware. As long as the number of blocks in the 2 partitions are the same, go ahead and mirror them. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
