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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support mdadm unable to fail a resyncing drive? Post 302545857 by Bashingaway on Tuesday 9th of August 2011 07:42:20 PM
Old 08-09-2011
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Originally Posted by DGPickett
The man seems to day you can pull them all offline, but is otherwise terse, so maybe they assume if you want to limp without the bad drive, you just pull it? Maybe the facility you want is lower down, in the system device layer not the md virtual device layer.
According to what I've read elsewhere you should be able to.....

mdadm --stop /dev/thatarray

mdadm --fail /dev/thatdrive

and then the drive should no longer show as in the array.....well that's the theory but it ain't working in practice.
 

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SDL::Cdrom(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     SDL::Cdrom(3)

NAME
SDL::Cdrom - a SDL perl extension for managing CD-ROM drives SYNOPSIS
use SDL::Cdrom; $cdrom = SDL::Cdrom->new(0); $cdrom->play(); EXPORTS
o "CD_NUM_DRIVES". DESCRIPTION
Create a new SDL::Cdrom object. The passed $id is the number of the drive, whereas 0 is the first drive etc. use SDL::Cdrom; my $drive => SDL::Cdrom->new($id); METHODS
CD_NUM_DRIVES() Returns the number of CD-ROM drives present. name() Returns the system dependent name of the CD-ROM device. status() Return the status of the drive. play() Play a track. pause() Pause the playing. resume() Resume the playing. stop() Stop the playing. eject() Eject the medium in the drive. id() Return the ID of the drive. num_tracks() Return the number of tracks on the medium. track() Returns the track description current() Return the current played track number. current_frame() Return the current frame. AUTHORS
David J. Goehrig Documentation by Tels <http://bloodgate.com/>. SEE ALSO
perl SDL::Mixer SDL::App. perl v5.12.1 2010-07-05 SDL::Cdrom(3)
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