Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:50:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:50:34 -0500 Received: from smtp3.vol.cz ([195.250.128.83]:47120 "EHLO smtp3.vol.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:50:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:05:36 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Alan Cox Cc: Marco Colombo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Quick question on Software RAID support. Message-ID: <20020214190536.GA160@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > 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)) I could imagine scenario when disk would set itself on fire... ...which was reason why disks in sun4/330 were separate by steel so fire in disks would not damage mainboard ;-). Pavel -- (about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S. no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa - 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/