From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Quick question on Software RAID support.
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:05:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020214190536.GA160@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202131109270.21300-100000@Megathlon.ESI> <E16axOE-0004zX-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16axOE-0004zX-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Hi!
> > I had a raid1 IDE system, and it was continuosly raising hard errors on
> > hdc (the disk was dead, non just some bad blocks): the net result was that
> > it was unusable - too slow, too busy on IDE errors (a lot of them - even
> > syslog wasn't happy).
>
> Don't try and do "hot pluggable" IDE raid it really doesn't work out. With
> scsi the impact of a sulking drive is minimal unless you get unlucky
> (I have here a failed SCSI SCA drive that hangs the entire bus merely by
> being present - I use it to terrify HA people 8))
I could imagine scenario when disk would set itself on fire...
...which was reason why disks in sun4/330 were separate by steel so
fire in disks would not damage mainboard ;-).
Pavel
--
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-14 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-13 1:34 Quick question on Software RAID support Mukund Ingle
2002-02-13 1:45 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-13 1:47 ` Chris Chabot
2002-02-13 4:10 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-13 9:24 ` Francois Romieu
2002-02-13 2:19 ` Rob Landley
2002-02-13 10:33 ` Marco Colombo
2002-02-13 11:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-13 14:25 ` Marco Colombo
2002-02-13 18:30 ` Mark Cooke
2002-02-13 21:33 ` Ville Herva
2002-02-13 21:54 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-02-13 22:12 ` Ville Herva
2002-02-15 23:48 ` Mark Cooke
2002-02-16 17:01 ` VIA KT133 (was: Re: Quick question on Software RAID support.) Ville Herva
2002-02-14 19:05 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-02-13 18:57 ` Quick question on Software RAID support Thomas Schenk
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