[Leaplist] 3Ware degraded, all drives 'ok'?

[Kevin Korb]

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The SMART stuff is safe through the 3Ware as long as you don't try to do
an idle spindown.

Jason Boxman wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 May 2009 17:15:09 Kevin Korb wrote:
>> You can't verify a degraded array.  There is nothing to verify it against.
>>
>> I would remove the drive then re-add it.  It will probably sync back up.
>>
>> You could also check the SMART data for that drive.
> 
> The SMART itself comes back okay.  I've never attempted to run an actual SMART 
> short or long test on a 3Ware'd disk.  Is that safe?  I'll probably try to 
> remove and re-add it.
> 
> 

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