Best IDE RAID5 solution for FreeBSD 5.2 ?

[Adrian at Connexus]

>At the risk of adding yet another "Quick Question" - if it's the same 
>channel that degrades - have you tried switching the channels over [Yes, I 
>know this requires someone on site to open/fiddle with the machine - and 
>switching the IDE cables over]?

Yeah I tried that too...  Basically no matter what the configuration
of drives and ports I use,  once it's degraded, I cannot rebuild the
broken drive back in.

>And, what's the state of the degraded drives afterwards - i.e. are they 
>really broken? [After having been tested/thrashed in a separate box to 
>verify it's condition?]

No, the drive isn't broken  - we've used the drives afterwards with
no problems and have run sector scans on them..

Thanks Karl,
Adrian.