From: Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:57:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA25B87.6070703@f_philipp.fastmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100317210028.1e4f499a@digimed.co.uk>
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Am 17.03.2010 22:00, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:44:34 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
>
>> Just for clarification: Is it really necessary to unplug the broken disk
>> for this to work?
>> If read access fails on sda and the BIOS tries sdb, would this also
>> work? Isn't grub's hd0 always the disk on which grub resides (e.g. the
>> disk from which grub managed to boot)?
>
> I suspect that may be dependent on the nature of the failure. For
> example, if /boot is corrupted, the BIOS will still boot from the broken
> disk's MBR before failing later.
>
> Most BIOSes now enable you to disable individual SATA ports, so you could
> disappear the disk without unplugging it, although I'm not sure why you'd
> want to leave a broken disk in the box.
>
>
Just in case I ever face high demands on uptime. It's good to know
whether I can still (remote) reboot a machine and it will come up
although one of its drives is broken.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-15 13:20 [gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo Steve
2010-03-15 14:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2010-03-15 15:49 ` Kyle Bader
2010-03-15 16:26 ` Steve
2010-03-15 18:21 ` Stroller
2010-03-15 19:18 ` Steve
2010-03-15 22:29 ` Andrea Conti
2010-03-16 16:32 ` Steve
2010-03-16 19:57 ` Stroller
2010-03-16 20:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-16 20:13 ` Stroller
2010-03-16 20:44 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-03-16 21:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-17 20:44 ` Florian Philipp
2010-03-17 21:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-18 16:57 ` Florian Philipp [this message]
2010-03-16 20:46 ` Steve
2010-03-17 0:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrea Conti
2010-03-17 13:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Iain Buchanan
2010-03-17 4:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Keith Dart
2010-03-17 8:03 ` Steve
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