> Oh, sure, you might want your system to stay running after it wuffs a > drive, but if you are running an IDE system, it almost certainly won't. > If you are running SCSI, it *might*, but don't count on it. Consider > cheap (i.e., software) RAID systems a way to rapidly repair a broken > computer, not a way to keep the system running without interruption.
Why wouldn't a two drive ATA/SATA system which was raidframe mirrored stay up if one of the drives went belly up? I've been spending some cycles automating the kernel build/raidframe configure process assuming it was worth the extra effort....