In my original post, I mistakenly said that I was running raid0 over
raid1. This is not the case. I am running raid1 over raid0 (mirroring
over striping). Sorry for the misinformation. When one of my scsi
devices failed, the kernel locked up.

Now for the questions: If a hard-drive fails like in this case,
shouldn't only half the mirror be affected? Couldn't the system still
function on the good half? This looks to be the aic7xxx driver problem?
Why would the hardware failure of the aic7xxx driver to communicate with
a drive knock out the complete system?

I would think that if a drive failed running a mirrored raid that the
system would realize this, shut down the bad mirrored half, send an
error message to everyone (root?) and function on the good half of the
mirror.

TIA

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