SATA Raid 5 and losing a drive

[jlb17 at duke.edu (Joshua Baker-LePain)]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 at 7:07pm, Andy Green wrote

> Andy Green wrote:
>> Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>> 
>>> Did you try doing any I/O to the array?  In my limited experience with 
>>> software RAID, it won't notice a drive missing until it tries to do 
>>> something with said drive.
>> 
>> Yes I did do this, I copied a file to the mountpoint and did a sync. 
>> Nothing.
>
> Hm Googling around suggests that everyone with SATA raid may be experiencing 
> the same lack of warning that their safety net just blew a hole through the 
> server farm roof in a bid to reach escape velocity.

And *that's* why I use 3ware...

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University