On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, smac at visi.com wrote: > It depends on whose raid controller you are using. > > If it's a newer HP/Compaq controller you can have 2 drives fail replace > the failed drives one at a time "HOT" and not miss a read or write. Huh? RAID5 means 1 parity drive, so if two drives fail and you don't have a hot spare (or if the second drive fails before the spare has been fully brought into service), you will (by definition) lose the array. Doesn't matter who made the controllers. Or are you talking about RAID6, where you have two parity drives? -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list