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    • coliverC
      coliver @DustinB3403
      last edited by

      @DustinB3403 said:

      @coliver said:

      How did you figure out what drive it was in the array? Or did you pull them until you saw the one with that serial number?

      How do I know which disk it is?

      Well the other day I noticed that the array had a failed disk. Since I was rebuilding the system anyways I pulled each disk and performed a check disk from windows while checking for bad sectors.

      Only 1 disk was found with bad sectors.

      Knowing which disk this was, and windows saying it fixed the problem, I re-added the disk and simply "remember" which disk had the bad sectors.

      So this disk is the disk that has to be removed.

      Ok, so you wouldn't be able to figure this out from the Linux CLI you would have to have a record of all the serial numbers that are in each bay.

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403 @coliver
        last edited by

        @coliver Pretty much.

        Since there is no hot-swap function on my server (no indicator lights either) it's simply a matter of my knowing which disk is connected to which SATA port.

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403
          last edited by DustinB3403

          So at this point I have the disk marked as failed, and removed from the array as shown below.

          0_1453994344578_XenCenterMain_2016-01-28_10-18-57.png

          As you can see sdc is not a part of the array at the moment, which means nothing will be written to the disk. Obviously I'm in a dangerous point in time.

          If I can't get my replacement disk soon, I risk losing the entire array.

          Now, because I've ready had issues with this array (specifically the disk) I have nothing running on this system that I don't have several backups of. So the drive has been ordered and will be here in a day or so.

          At which point I'll shutdown the server, remove the bad disk, and put the new one in.

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403
            last edited by

            While I wait for that drive to arrive, I'm going to figure out how to configure email alerts for the mdadm array. Seeing as this would be incredibly useful to have.

            Since I can't sit here watching the cat /proc/mdstat.... 🙂

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            • travisdh1T
              travisdh1 @DustinB3403
              last edited by

              @DustinB3403 said:

              While I wait for that drive to arrive, I'm going to figure out how to configure email alerts for the mdadm array. Seeing as this would be incredibly useful to have.

              Since I can't sit here watching the cat /proc/mdstat.... 🙂

              No remote ssh access?

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403 @travisdh1
                last edited by

                @travisdh1 I do have access, but I'm still not going to sit here and watch it.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
                  last edited by DustinB3403

                  So now that I have the email alerts configured for my Xen Servers, I really want to work on updating SmartCTL so it supports the drives that I have in this server.

                  Which are pretty common drives.

                  Western Digital Red 1TB.

                  I'm really surprised how old of a database is built into XenServer 6.5.

                  So time to figure this part out.

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @DustinB3403
                    last edited by

                    @DustinB3403 said:

                    So now that I have the email alerts configured for my Xen Servers, I really want to work on updating SmartCTL so it supports the drives that I have in this server.

                    Which are pretty common drives.

                    Western Digital Red 1TD.

                    I'm really surprised how old of a database is built into XenServer 6.5.

                    So time to figure this part out.

                    WTF is a TD?

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403 @JaredBusch
                      last edited by

                      @JaredBusch said:

                      @DustinB3403 said:

                      So now that I have the email alerts configured for my Xen Servers, I really want to work on updating SmartCTL so it supports the drives that I have in this server.

                      Which are pretty common drives.

                      Western Digital Red 1TD.

                      I'm really surprised how old of a database is built into XenServer 6.5.

                      So time to figure this part out.

                      WTF is a TD?

                      That would be a typo' whoops.

                      1TB.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
                        last edited by

                        @JaredBusch said:

                        @DustinB3403 said:

                        So now that I have the email alerts configured for my Xen Servers, I really want to work on updating SmartCTL so it supports the drives that I have in this server.

                        Which are pretty common drives.

                        Western Digital Red 1TD.

                        I'm really surprised how old of a database is built into XenServer 6.5.

                        So time to figure this part out.

                        WTF is a TD?

                        TeraDactyl, duh.

                        It's the amount of storage taht canbe carried by an unladen teradactyl.

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                        • JaredBuschJ
                          JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          @JaredBusch said:

                          @DustinB3403 said:

                          So now that I have the email alerts configured for my Xen Servers, I really want to work on updating SmartCTL so it supports the drives that I have in this server.

                          Which are pretty common drives.

                          Western Digital Red 1TD.

                          I'm really surprised how old of a database is built into XenServer 6.5.

                          So time to figure this part out.

                          WTF is a TD?

                          TeraDactyl, duh.

                          It's the amount of storage taht canbe carried by an unladen teradactyl.

                          A Jurassic or Triassic TeraDactyl?

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
                            last edited by

                            @JaredBusch said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            @JaredBusch said:

                            @DustinB3403 said:

                            So now that I have the email alerts configured for my Xen Servers, I really want to work on updating SmartCTL so it supports the drives that I have in this server.

                            Which are pretty common drives.

                            Western Digital Red 1TD.

                            I'm really surprised how old of a database is built into XenServer 6.5.

                            So time to figure this part out.

                            WTF is a TD?

                            TeraDactyl, duh.

                            It's the amount of storage taht canbe carried by an unladen teradactyl.

                            A Jurassic or Triassic TeraDactyl?

                            I... I don't know!

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                            • JaredBuschJ
                              JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
                              last edited by

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              @JaredBusch said:

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              @JaredBusch said:

                              @DustinB3403 said:

                              So now that I have the email alerts configured for my Xen Servers, I really want to work on updating SmartCTL so it supports the drives that I have in this server.

                              Which are pretty common drives.

                              Western Digital Red 1TD.

                              I'm really surprised how old of a database is built into XenServer 6.5.

                              So time to figure this part out.

                              WTF is a TD?

                              TeraDactyl, duh.

                              It's the amount of storage taht canbe carried by an unladen teradactyl.

                              A Jurassic or Triassic TeraDactyl?

                              I... I don't know!

                              img

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                              • MattSpellerM
                                MattSpeller
                                last edited by MattSpeller

                                This is a strange thread...

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                                • coliverC
                                  coliver @MattSpeller
                                  last edited by

                                  @MattSpeller said:

                                  This is a strange thread...

                                  Right... lets not go there tis a silly thread.

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                                  • brianlittlejohnB
                                    brianlittlejohn @coliver
                                    last edited by

                                    @coliver silly english k-nig-hts

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                                    • M
                                      mazterjedi @scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      @scottalanmiller African or European?

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                                      • MattSpellerM
                                        MattSpeller @mazterjedi
                                        last edited by

                                        @mazterjedi said in Replacing a Failed drive in MD RAID 10:

                                        @scottalanmiller African or European?

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                                        • travisdh1T
                                          travisdh1 @MattSpeller
                                          last edited by

                                          @MattSpeller said in Replacing a Failed drive in MD RAID 10:

                                          @mazterjedi said in Replacing a Failed drive in MD RAID 10:

                                          @scottalanmiller African or European?

                                          31718148.jpg

                                          Stop taking my hand! At least @mazterjedi get's it. Quick, take my hand!

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                                          • momurdaM
                                            momurda
                                            last edited by

                                            Did DustinBs replacement drive work?

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