[plug] re: RAID5 & Hot Spares

[bob]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 05:40 pm, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >>Well ... if it weren't for the expensive SCSI drives, I'd probably do
> >>something quite horrible.
> >
> > Break into the cable and install a switch on one of the data lines
> > would be my approach.
>
> Yeah, but I can't think how to actually simulate bad sectors that way.
> Electronics failures, yes, but not good 'ol bad sectors and disk
> mechanics problems - something that it may be even more important for a
> RAID controller to notice.

I would think that from the controllers POV it would amount to the same 
thing, a bad data stream. 

> Craig Ringer

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