> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Is it supposed to detect a failed disk and *stop* using it?
Yes, it will stop using it and if appropriate try and do a rebuild
> I had a raid1 IDE system, and it was continuosly raising hard errors on
> hdc (the disk was dead, non just some bad blocks): the net result was that
> it was unusable - too slow, too busy on IDE errors (a lot of them - even
> syslog wasn't happy).
Don't try and do "hot pluggable" IDE raid it really doesn't work out. With
scsi the impact of a sulking drive is minimal unless you get unlucky
(I have here a failed SCSI SCA drive that hangs the entire bus merely by
being present - I use it to terrify HA people 8))
> BTW, given a 2 disks IDE raid1 setup (hda / hdc), does it pay to put a
> third disk in (say hdb) and configure it as "spare disk"? I've got
> concerns about the slave not actually beeing able to operate if the
> master (hda) fails badly.
Well placed concerns. I don't know what Andre thinks but IMHO spend the
extra $20 to put an extra highpoint controller in the machine for the third
IDE bus.
Alan
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