Survived and survived....
I had a drive lose power (flaky connector) in a 4 drive setup (2x hpt370 dual channel controllers, each with a 30G IBM ide-drive on each channel - Using IDE and Raid-patches for 2.2.17). The result was a readable, but unwritable array. A streamed mp3 played flawlessly while the drive 'died', while my download (over smb) just froze.
Rebuilding the array (after a reboot) went ok, but during rebuild the 'new' drive appeared to be drive #5 in the 4-disk set, with drive #3 still dead.
>(I only try to figure out what is going on, because I am heavily
>interested in building RAID5 configs myself, and you would not want to
>touch components (SW or HW) in this case that you cannot not trust)
>
Seems to work ok on 2.2.17 at least (had problems with 2.2.19 as detailed previously) - untried with 2.2.20 or 2.4 so far.
It's fun tho :-)
-S
-- Simen Thoresen, Beowulf-cleaner and random artist - close and personal.Er det ikke rart? The gnu RART-project on http://valinor.dolphinics.no:1080/~simentt/rart
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