3ware escalade

[Simon]

If I'm not mistaken and from what I recall, in theory, you should be able to
reboot in the middle of a rebuild, however, once it comes back, you would
have to start rebuilding it from scratch. It should not prevent your machine
from booting, though, why? because the array is still functional as only 1
drive failed, maybe something else happened to your system. To see if if
this is the case, I'm gonna try it right now with my 7500-8 controller. Perhaps
someone on the list can confirm this. I believe I tried this once with Mylex
Accelerated serries and it worked as I describe above.

-Simon


On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 09:28:50 -0600, Cassidy B. Larson wrote:

>I would think for Redundancy in a RAID array a hardware controller should be
>allowed to have the machine reboot during a rebuild process and not loose
>track of where it is, and still run in degraded mode.
>
>Last test was a RAID10 rebuild, to see if a reboot would load the OS fine.
>It appears it successfully reboots during a rebuild phase. Strange how a
>RAID5 wouldn't boot and a RAID10 would.  I'll try RAID5 once more to see if
>I got something amiss.  However, I do like the speed of a RAID10.. Maybe
>I'll just keep it.
>
>
>Cassidy
>
>On 10/1/03 3:22 PM, "Simon" <simon at optinet.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> Why are you rebooting in a middle of a rebuild? I didn't know this is
>> acceptable.
>> I thought about it, but didn't actually try it. Rebuilds without interruption
>> work fine
>> with my 7500-8 controller with 8 IBM drives in RAID5 running 5.1-R
>> 
>> -Simon
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