[sclug] hot drives

[Pieter Claassen]

On Monday 19 June 2006 01:40, Dickon Hood wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:20:57 +0200, Pieter Claassen wrote:
> : Eeeek, I am in hard drive hell!!!
> :
> : A while ago I swore never to buy Maxtor ever again but then .....
>
> A wise move.
>
> : I have two 120GB Maxtors in a soft raid config (actually they are
> : plugged into a cheap PCI PATA raid card but after config, the linux
> : kernel still sees them as two disks so I just went with soft raid).
>
> It works.
>

Simple question. Why when I configure the SATA raid card and add the two 
drives to an array do I still get presented with a two scsi devices in the 
kernel? What does this mean? I was under the impression that a successful hw 
config would present only a single raid device to the kernel.

Even more intriguing, what happens if I configure HW raid as well as SW raid 
and then have a drive fail?

Cheers,
P