Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > 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... Same here. Though I did use software RAID5 for a number of years back in the 96-2000 timeframe and never lost any data, even on very busy production mail servers. But as I look back, I think I was just remarkably lucky. 8-) Cheers,