Permanent isn't so permanent. If you pull the drive out, it will not be marked bad. If you put it back after the box starts rebuilding the raid in it will be marked as a spare. If you fail the disk with a command it will be marked bad. It can be unmarked by erasing the label I believe.
Tom
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Priebe, Jason wrote:
This is a really stupid question, but I can't find any answers to it in the documentation. We are going to replace the 4GB drives in our F210's shelf with 9GB drives by manually failing the 4GB disks one at a time.
What concerns me is that the documentation mentions that failing a disk _permanently_ marks it as failed, so that it cannot be used in another filer. Am I totally naive, or is there some way that you can permanently mark a disk so that even if you reformat it, a filer still knows that the disk is failed?
I don't intend to try to use the disks in another filer, but I am worried about rendering seven 4GB disks unusable with any SCSI system. Will I be able to use these disks with SCSI-equipped PCs?
Jason Priebe WRAL OnLine http://www.wral-tv.com/