[PLUG] Does anyone know how to force an IDE disk drive offline
Mark Allyn
allyn at well.com
Tue Aug 3 12:24:02 UTC 2004
Hi:
I am trying to simulate a disk drive failure in order to
ensure that a raid array will still continue to operate.
Do any of you know of a way to force an IDE disk drive
offline? This is under debian sarge.
Of course, I can simply remove the IDE connector, but
I don't want to risk damaging the hardware.
I thought of using dd to write garbage onto a particular
disk drive, but I fear that doing this may not be good
for the drives either and it does not realy simulate losing
a drive.
Thank you all
Mark Allyn
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