Re: Hardware RAID setup
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, nate wrote:
> be sure to test, on my systems if a disk failed the system would kernel
> panic. Maybe the 7000 controllers are better, but the 6800 series for
> sure did not do a sufficient job of masking a disk failure, the kernel
> would detect a sudden burst of bad sectors and reiserfs would puke
> immediately killing the system.
By test you mean pull the power or the cable while the machine is running?
> and I did have a LOT of disk failures, probably 12-13 failures accross
> a period of 1 and a half years on 4 different systems running 3ware
> cards, most of the failures were IBM 75GXP(~85%) though there was
> about 3 drives that failed after I switched to maxtor drives.
I've lost two IBM drives in the last year and a half. I've got a new 60GB
dive on a shelf I haven't wanted to use because of that. Lately I've been
using Barracudas because I like quiet drives. I hope they hold up.
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Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org
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