Re: 3ware and two drive hardware raid1

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
13 Jun 2003 10:03:18 +0100


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

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