Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265266AbTFMIvv (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 04:51:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265281AbTFMIvu (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 04:51:50 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:8368 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265266AbTFMIvs (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 04:51:48 -0400 Subject: Re: 3ware and two drive hardware raid1 From: Alan Cox To: Mike Dresser Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1055494998.5162.26.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 13 Jun 2003 10:03:18 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 19 On Iau, 2003-06-12 at 16:56, Mike Dresser wrote: > If i have a hardware raid1 array of two 120 gig Maxtor DiamondMax 9 drives > on a 3ware 7000-2. Failure of one disk should not go all the way up to > the OS and cause the OS to report hard errors, and remount the drive as > read-only, right? Yes, but that won't help you if you lost both drives, which does happen now and again - overheating, bad PSU, using two drives from the same batch together and so on. The trace looks like you may have lost both drives. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/