On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 at 7:07pm, Andy Green wrote > Andy Green wrote: >> Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >> >>> Did you try doing any I/O to the array? In my limited experience with >>> software RAID, it won't notice a drive missing until it tries to do >>> something with said drive. >> >> Yes I did do this, I copied a file to the mountpoint and did a sync. >> Nothing. > > Hm Googling around suggests that everyone with SATA raid may be experiencing > the same lack of warning that their safety net just blew a hole through the > server farm roof in a bid to reach escape velocity. And *that's* why I use 3ware... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University