--- megaraid-status.old	2008-10-10 00:00:00.000000000 +0200
+++ megaraid-status	2010-01-18 09:14:40.256801974 +0100
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
         bad = True
 
 for disk in disklist:
-    if not disk[-1] == 'online':
+    if not ( disk[-1] == 'online' or disk[-1] == 'hotspare' ):
         bad = True
 
 if bad: