On Friday 23 January 2004 04:57, Christopher Odenbach wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>> thanks for your reply. what do you mean with 'half a mirror'? i'm
>> planning to use 2 disks, fully mirrored. the first time i pull one
>> out, and put in a fresh disk i expect things to be ok. but what do
>> you think will happen when i put in a disk that has been used
>> before as a full mirror? or is this exactly the situation you're
>> talking about? :-)
>
>Yes it is. :-)
>
>> if i have to clean a disk everytime i put it back in i'm gonna
>> have a problem, since this server will be my only SATA machine...
>
>So you better check before buying.
>
>We ran into the problem when testing the 3ware daemon which should
>notify the admin of any problems or messages. So we pulled one disk
>out, got an email (hooray), put the disk in again - and got no
> response any more at all from the machine (which was a pity as it
> was our production web server...)
>
>The server didn't even want to boot with both disks in.
>
>We had to take the disk out again, reboot, clean the disk and put it
> in again.
>
>Christopher

The kernel folks need to know this!  Please post a message to the 
lkml.  Someone there may be able to point you at a newer kernel thats 
suitably patched, or at a patch src.  When posting, be sure and give 
all version numbers.

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