Linux Software Raid redundancy and the aic7xxx

Greg Wickham G.Wickham at Deakin.Edu.Au
Sat Mar 11 06:10:01 PST 2000


>From the file /usr/doc/raidtools-0.90/Software-RAID.HOWTO.txt
(redhat 6.2-beta)

> You cannot be sure that your system will survive a disk crash. The
> RAID layer should handle device failures just fine, but SCSI drivers
> could be broken on error handling, or the IDE chipset could lock up,
> or a lot of other things could happen.

Does the aic7xxx handle drive failures in all cases?
And this gets reported back to the upper level code correctly?

Any experience good or bad would be welcome ...

   -Greg

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