Hi, I lost a disk from a 4 disk RAID-5 array; usually not a problem, investigate and add it back in. Normally nothing wrong with the disk, possibly a ICH6 libata bug when heavy IO is taking place. Yesterday when adding it back to the array, I run into a problem with 3 badblocks on one of the other disks which caused the rebuilding to stop. Anyway, got my array back (only one lost file) with ddrescue. This leads me to a question. I understand from reading the linux-raid archives that the current behaviour when rebuilding with a single badblock on another disk is for that disk to also be kicked from the array. For some time I have considered buying a 3ware 9500 card and using that instead of my current ICH6 and md solution. Can anyone tell me what would happen in the same scenario with a 3ware card. ie. would that transparently handle a RAID-5 disk failure and rebuild, with a badblock on another disk? Or would I have even less chance of getting my data back? Regards Clive -- Clive Messer <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- VGER BF report: U 0.520926 - 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
