Re: Drive type...

> amrd2: 34556MB (70770688 sectors) RAID 5 (degraded)

divide by 2 so it does look like an 18G drive. However....
that does not necessarily than you can replace it with -any-
18GB drive. fwiw I dymo label all my servers with not only
drive size but make/model so I know what I need for replacement,
although mine are all hotswap I prefer to coldswap :)

- Don

On 8/22/2007 at 11:56 AM Keith wrote:

>Aquired a running server, FreeBSD 4.10. One of the drives has gone bad in
>the RAID5 partition. Problem is I dont know what size the drive it is.
>
>Is there any way I can tell what size drive it is without shutting down
>the server and pulling the drive?
>
>It has 8 drives,
>
>/dev/amrd0s1a
>/dev/amrd0s1e
>/dev/amrd0s1f
>
>These are 2 drives in RAID1
>
>/dev/amrd1s1e
>
>These are 2 drives in RAID1
>
>/dev/amrd2s1e
>
>This is 3 drives in RAID5 with HS.
>
>amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
>amrd0: 8568MB (17547264 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal)
>amrd1: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
>amrd1: 8568MB (17547264 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal)
>amrd2: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
>amrd2: 34556MB (70770688 sectors) RAID 5 (degraded)
>SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
>pass1 at amr0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
>pass1: <DELL 1x2 U2W SCSI BP 5.35> Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device
>pass2 at amr0 bus 1 target 6 lun 0
>pass2: <DELL 1x8 U2W SCSI BP 5.35> Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device
>Mounting root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a
>
>This is a dmesg. I'm thinking its an 18G drive. Anyone know what size
>drive it is so I can make sure I have the correct size on hand when I do a
>shutdown to replace the drive?


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