loadme Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Hey guys, following up on this 18 month old feature request for having native hot spare support http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14254.0 I wanted to ask you if its already possible, to setup a disc as hot spare when you only have a single free disc slot meant for a cache drive and all other slots are already used by unraid. Since I found quite a lot helpful how-tos in this forum, maybe I oversaw one for hot spare functionality? The search didnt bring up anything useful for me. any hint is highly appreciated. cheers! Quote Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 I would preclear it, then do an hdparm -y /dev/sd? on the drive's id and leave it in place. When you need it, it will be precleared and ready to be assigned into the failing position. Let's call this a warm spare rather then hot spare. Quote Link to comment
loadme Posted January 16, 2013 Author Share Posted January 16, 2013 thanks I will do so. And are there lately any official announcements if such a feature will follow or not? Quote Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 thanks I will do so. And are there lately any official announcements if such a feature will follow or not? Nothing official. Tom's been working tirelessly to release a stable v5 unRAID. Quote Link to comment
loadme Posted January 16, 2013 Author Share Posted January 16, 2013 Thanks for the response. Quote Link to comment
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