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From: "Cassidy B. Larson" <butch@infowest.com>
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Subject: Re: 3ware escalade
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I would think for Redundancy in a RAID array a hardware controller should be
allowed to have the machine reboot during a rebuild process and not loose
track of where it is, and still run in degraded mode.

Last test was a RAID10 rebuild, to see if a reboot would load the OS fine.
It appears it successfully reboots during a rebuild phase. Strange how a
RAID5 wouldn't boot and a RAID10 would.  I'll try RAID5 once more to see if
I got something amiss.  However, I do like the speed of a RAID10.. Maybe
I'll just keep it.


Cassidy

On 10/1/03 3:22 PM, "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> wrote:

> 
> Why are you rebooting in a middle of a rebuild? I didn't know this is
> acceptable.
> I thought about it, but didn't actually try it. Rebuilds without interruption
> work fine
> with my 7500-8 controller with 8 IBM drives in RAID5 running 5.1-R
> 
> -Simon