Linux Software Raid redundancy and the aic7xxx

[Doug Ledford]

Greg Wickham wrote:
> 
> >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 ...

If the drive doesn't die in such a way that it basically makes the SCSI bus
useless, then the driver does fine.  If the SCSI bus gets hosed by the drive,
then there's nothing the driver can do about it.

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