[Gllug] Cheap 'real' IDE raid controller

[Doug Winter]

On Tue 04 May Huw Lynes wrote:
> I'd be careful of SATA RAID at the moment. All the evals we've done so far
> have had dreadful problems. Mostly down to the fact that a lot of the SATA
> drives don't report problems properly so that RAID controllers have a real
> problem isolating the host from hardware problems. e.g. a disk dies and the
> filesystem goes off-line because the host picks up I/O errors.
> 
> The engineers I've spoken to say give it another twelve months for the Disk
> manufacturers to sort out their firmware.

Out of interest, how do you simulate these kinds of disk errors?  Do you
keep a stash of shagged disks around?

cheers,

doug.

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