RAID dead drive?

[jrvz at comcast.net (James R. Van Zandt)]

"Rich Braun" <richb at pioneer.ci.net> wrote:
> you can easily add the command
> '/sbin/mdadm -F -d 60 -m username at myhost -s -c /etc/mdadm.conf' 
> to any system.  Don't run without it.  If you have hardware RAID,
> you need to figure out how to set up monitoring.

I'll second the importance of monitoring.  

Incidentally, I found mdadm can send mail to more than one address:
   -m user at here.com,user at there.net

               - Jim Van Zandt