February 8, 200818 yr Hi, I have a system with 15 750GB disks. Disk 8 is displaying a red icon on the "Main" screen (meaning it is disabled). Before I took the tower offline, Disk 8 was reporting 2 errors on the "main" screen. Disk 8 contains about 80GB worth of data at the moment (not sure if that information is relevant). I switched SATA and power cables with Disk 9, but 8 is still red lit. Should I assume now that Disk 8 is bad and replace it? Or should I try to reformat it? If you do recommend a reformat, how do I go about doing that? Is that a line-command function, because I cannot see how to reformat via the web interface? Oh, and is there anyway I can have myself "notified" of a failing disk? Although I check my tower nearly daily right now, I can see down the road I could begin to take it for granted and not check for weeks or months. Anyway, this isn't a disaster. Hard drives fail; parity is nice! I'm going to power down as I await a reply. Thanks.
February 9, 200818 yr Author I'm the OP. I guess everybody took the day off from helping doofuses! Anyway, I've replaced the drive (using an on-sale Seagate drive) and the rebuild has begun!
February 9, 200818 yr I can at least help with the second request. Here is a script to alert you via e-mail if a disk fails. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=911.0 It was based on an earlier script I wrote to use an alert to a YAC client on another PC on your LAN if a failure occurs. Glad you are currently rebuilding your failed disk. Always remember, there are only two kinds of hard-disks in the world... No, not IDE and SATA... The two types are "those disks that have crashed" and "those disks that have not yet crashed (but it is only a matter of time until they do)" Joe L.
February 9, 200818 yr Author I can at least help with the second request. Here is a script to alert you via e-mail if a disk fails. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=911.0 It was based on an earlier script I wrote to use an alert to a YAC client on another PC on your LAN if a failure occurs. Glad you are currently rebuilding your failed disk. Always remember, there are only two kinds of hard-disks in the world... No, not IDE and SATA... The two types are "those disks that have crashed" and "those disks that have not yet crashed (but it is only a matter of time until they do)" Joe L. Thanks for the script! The rebuild is complete and all is good....
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