What does "Replaced Drive: mean in raidutil?

[Gayn Winters]

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> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Marc G. Fournier
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 9:23 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: What does "Replaced Drive: mean in raidutil?
> 
> 
> Stupid question, but considering that all the others state 
> 'Optimal', I'm a wee bit concerned:
> 
> # raidutil -L physical
> Address    Type              Manufacturer/Model         
> Capacity  Status
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------
> d0b0t3d0   Disk Drive (DASD) SEAGATE  ST336607LC        
> 35003MB   Optimal
> d0b0t4d0   Disk Drive (DASD) SEAGATE  ST336607LC        
> 35003MB   Optimal
> d0b0t5d0   Disk Drive (DASD) SEAGATE  ST336607LC        
> 35003MB   Optimal
> d0b1t0d0   Disk Drive (DASD) SEAGATE  ST336607LC        
> 35003MB   Replaced Drive
> d0b1t1d0   Disk Drive (DASD) SEAGATE  ST336607LC        
> 35003MB   Optimal
> d0b1t2d0   Disk Drive (DASD) SEAGATE  ST336607LC        
> 35003MB   Optimal
> 
> Does that mean it *needs* to be replaced, or ... ?
> 

Googling: "replaced drive" raidutil
Gives several good hits, e.g.,
http://perlstalker.amigo.net/FreeBSD/RAID.phtml?pf=1

Looks to me like you've replaced the original drive with the one
that is marked "Replaced Drive".  See the example in the above link.
There are other links from Google that have more extensive examples.

-gayn

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