On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 07:15:23AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Except those cheap IDE controlers on most home systems tend to lock up > completly or otherwise crash in those cases very often. > > At least that is my experience over the years. But then I don't have > much expensive and shiny new equipment or much experience on the new > stuff I have (since it is new, hasn't failed yet :).
I know on promise 202xx controllers I have never had a problem if a drive died, it just flagged as dead in /proc/mdstat, and I scheduled time soon after to replace the drive and rebuild the mirror. System didn't mind what so ever. Not sure how onboard ide controllers deal with it. The SATA ones I have dealt with seemed ok with drive failures although I haven't had any real SATA fialures yet, only me pretending by yanking the power to a drive. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
