From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mads Peter Bach Subject: Re: Disks keep disapearing Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 19:01:38 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EBD3072.4090205@hum.auc.dk> References: <3EBD2D2C.1050900@visiarc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3EBD2D2C.1050900@visiarc.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Sch=F6n?= Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Johan Sch=F6n wrote: > The disk itself doesn't appear to know about any failures > (using smartctl), and it works again when hotadded to the raidset. I'= ve > also had a multiple drive "failure" twice, both times with two drives > using the same IDE channel. Using more than one drive on an IDE channel is considered risky by many= =2E If a=20 drive fails, it's likely to bring down the entire channel. In any case, don't put more than one drive of an array on the same chan= nel. --=20 Mads Peter Bach Systemadministrator, Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Aalborg Universitet Kroghstr=E6de 3 - 5.111, DK-9220 Aalborg =D8st - (+45) 96358062 # whois MPB1-DK@whois.dk-hostmaster.dk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html