At Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:40:25 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/