3Ware 9550SX-4LP User Guide - Page 149
Creating a Hot Spare, To partition and format under FreeBSD
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Creating a Hot Spare To partition and format under FreeBSD 1 Boot the system and log in as root. 2 Open a terminal window. 3 Partition the unit: fdisk -BI /dev/da0; disklabel /dev/da0 | disklabel -B -R -r da0 4 Create or make the file system: newfs /dev/da0c You can also use sysinstall to format and partition the unit. Creating a Hot Spare You can designate an available drive as a hot spare. If a redundant unit degrades and a hot spare the size of the degraded disk (or larger) is available, the hot spare will automatically replace the failed drive in the unit without user intervention. When this occurs, an event notification is generated and appears in the list of alarms in 3DM. It is a good idea to create a hot spare after you create a redundant unit. In order to replace a failed drive, a hot spare must have the same or larger storage capacity than the drive it is replacing. For 9550SX and 9590SE controllers, the Auto-Rebuild policy allows automatic rebuilding to occur with drives that are not designated as spares. For more information, see "Setting the Auto-Rebuild Policy" on page 120. Note: 3ware's 9000 series RAID controllers use drive coercion so that drives from differing manufacturers and with slightly different capacities are more likely to be able to be used as spares for each other. Drive coercion slightly decreases the usable capacity of a drive that is used in redundant units. The capacity used for each drive is rounded down to the nearest GB for drives under 45 GB (45,000,000,000), and rounded down to the nearest 5 GBytes for drives over 45 GB. For example, a 44.3 GB drive will be rounded down to 44 GBytes, and a 123 GB drives will be rounded down to 120 GBytes. If you have 120 GB drives from different manufacturers, chances are that the capacity varies slightly. For example, one drive might be 122 GB, and the other 123 GB, even though both are sold and marketed as "120 GB drives." 3ware drive coercion uses the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other. www.3ware.com 139