ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration (atacontrol and gmirror relationship?)

[firmdog at gmail.com]

On Nov 27, 2007 7:03 PM, Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 November 2007 01:08:49 pm firmdog at gmail.com wrote:
> > Why was the device removed completely?
> >
> >
> > Can I simply do this?  (want to be sure as this box is remote)
> >
> > gmirror forget data
> >
> > atacontrol attach ata0
> >
> > gmirror insert data ad0
>
> IDE devices generally aren't hot swappable, so you're going to have to
> take
> the box down to replace the failed drive (that's why it detached from the
> bus).  Once you do that you can rebuild the gmirror.
>


I don't want to hot swap...I want to get the existing bad drive back into
the mirror and see how long it lasts before gmirror breaks again.

Can I use atacontrol to get the drive back in the system?

Thanks,
Andy