On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 12:33:40PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Seems we have some misunderstanding here. I am talking about > future events. Of course I don't know in advance which disk > fails when. If a disk dies, then its the job of raidframe to > detect this event, to mark the disk as bad, and to provide the > basic service with the remaining disks, as far as possible. > And yet the machine became unresponsive for 30 minutes. > This took much too long.
Couldn't it be related to the IDE bus? What for noise can a deffective disk on an IDE controller generate when it is failling. I would suggest to you to use SCSI controllers and disks with hot-swappable functionnalities. -- Olivier Cherrier - Symacx.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
