Resync the mirror after a disk replacement

Hi all,
Running Oracle 10gR2 on Solaris. Have a disk group with two disks and each disk in a failure group(normal redundancy). Now when removing one disk to simulate a disk failure, the ASM disk group continued to operate:
1. I didnot find a dictionary view that shows the status of the disk in the disk group as the disk failed, there should be some way to detect the status, any ideas?
2. When resetting back the disk, is there a CLI to re-establich the mirror? or if Oracle resyncs automatically how to check the progress?

Ashquar,
When you restart your database with the new disk, the balancing of the "new mirror" should be handled automatically by ASM. Depending on the size of your storage, it might take some time to complete. I hope this helps!

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