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Am 17.03.2010 22:00, schrieb Neil Bothwick: |
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> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:44:34 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>> Just for clarification: Is it really necessary to unplug the broken disk |
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>> for this to work? |
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>> If read access fails on sda and the BIOS tries sdb, would this also |
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>> work? Isn't grub's hd0 always the disk on which grub resides (e.g. the |
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>> disk from which grub managed to boot)? |
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> I suspect that may be dependent on the nature of the failure. For |
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> example, if /boot is corrupted, the BIOS will still boot from the broken |
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> disk's MBR before failing later. |
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> Most BIOSes now enable you to disable individual SATA ports, so you could |
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> disappear the disk without unplugging it, although I'm not sure why you'd |
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> want to leave a broken disk in the box. |
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Just in case I ever face high demands on uptime. It's good to know |
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whether I can still (remote) reboot a machine and it will come up |
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although one of its drives is broken. |