Re: Fwd: hard drive failure under RAID-1

2001-09-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 03:12, WHIRLYCOTT wrote: > You know, I had software RAID-1 implemented on some 2.2.x box about 2 > years ago using two Western Digital drives until one day, both drives > failed at the same time. Apparently, there was some hardware bug > whereby after ~99 days of uptime, the d

Re: Fwd: hard drive failure under RAID-1

2001-09-25 Thread WHIRLYCOTT
You know, I had software RAID-1 implemented on some 2.2.x box about 2 years ago using two Western Digital drives until one day, both drives failed at the same time. Apparently, there was some hardware bug whereby after ~99 days of uptime, the drives lost power and the controller stopped working.

Re: Fwd: hard drive failure under RAID-1

2001-09-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:01, James wrote: > A question a bit apart, what has happened to RAID autodetect in the 2.4.x > kernels? Works fine for me in 2.4.2, I have several machines doing autodetect in 2.4.2. I have tested autodetect on newer kernels that that but don't recall the details. If yo

Re: Fwd: hard drive failure under RAID-1

2001-09-25 Thread James
A question a bit apart, what has happened to RAID autodetect in the 2.4.x kernels? Thanks On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > The following is something to consider when setting up RAID arrays. At the > moment AFAIK every RAID solution suffers from this problem. :( > > > I have a

Fwd: hard drive failure under RAID-1

2001-09-25 Thread Russell Coker
The following is something to consider when setting up RAID arrays. At the moment AFAIK every RAID solution suffers from this problem. :( I have a Linux software RAID-1 array consisting of two IBM IDE hard drives. The latest kernel works the same way as the 2.4.2 kernel I am using on that mach