* Priebe, Jason (priebe@wral-tv.com) done spit this rhetoric:
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.
Not sure why you'd want to do that, as this would make only 4G of each of the 9G drives useable...
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?
All it does is mark the raid label as broken, so yes to both.