Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 16:56, Barry L. Kline wrote: > > Note that unless it has changed recently, SATA drives don't pass > errors up to the software raid layer correctly. If a drive > dies it doesn't get kicked out as it should. Would you please elaborate as this seems to run counter to my experience? I have had 3 drive fail events with software raid (md) tools and SATA drives in the last year. The drive was taken off-line and I as the sysadm received a warning message via email. I downed the systems (after-hours) and replaced the failed drive. (These machines don't have hot- swappable h/w) No problems were encountered. Two of these systems are running a WBEL-3 and a 2.4 kernel and haven't been updated in a while. The other was a CentOS-3, same story. Regards Ray