hi ya raiders .. we(they) have 14x 72GB scsi disks config'd as raid5, ( no hot spare .. ) - if 1 disk dies, no problem ... ez to recover - my dumb question is, - if 2 disks dies at the same time, i assume the entire raid5 is basically hosed if it won't reassemble and resync from the point where it last was before the crash ?? - i assume that the similar 2 disk failure also applies to hw raid controllrs, but it'd be more dependent upon the raid controller's firmware for it's ability to recover from 2 of 14 simultaneous disk failures ( lets say the dell powervault 2205 series ) - i think 4x 300GB ide disks is better ( less likely to fail ?? ) and yes it has already crashed twice with 2 different disks running at 78F at nights and weekends when the air conditioning is off - i wish i can just change things but... its not yet my call :-) c ya alvin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
