ext3fs SAS 5/i raid

[Tom Brown]

> So, after all this my question is: If I am using hardware RAID, should
> the linux kernel remount the file system to readonly when a mirrored
> drive fails? This seems very counterintuitive to me. Should the system
> not continue to function, but with some notification of the hardware
> failure?

no - if using hardware RAID the OS should continue as normal after a 
drive failure