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

[David Hubbard]

From: Fran Fabrizio
> 
> 
> To clarify, I'm not saying I lost data, I'm saying I lost -access- to 
> the data.  I had to rebuild the failed drive in order to 
> regain access. 
>   All drives in the array had to be online for me to access the data. 
> Once a drive failed, I started losing the ability to read the data.

Sounds like you have a bad raid controller.  I've lost countless
disks in Dell servers from 2400's through 2850's in raid 5 and 10
and have never lost access to the data or even had the server go
down; just pop a new disk in at my convenience and it's good to
go.  Some of those older servers were excruciatingly slow to begin
with and got even worse with a dead drive but they always remained
online.

David