PERC 4e/DC in 2850 - lost 1 disk, RAID5 array failed

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Fran Fabrizio wrote:

> But isn't the point of RAID5 that it'll keep running with the loss of a
> single disk?  Am I completely confused?  Yes, I know I need to rebuild
> the disk, but I should be able to do that and at the same time the
> system should still be able to serve requests while it is missing one disk.

Yes.  If it was performing correctly you should have been able to not notice
anything had happened (if you weren't monitoring it properly).  It's a pretty
half-arsed RAID-5 if that's not the case.

jh

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