[plug] re: RAID5 & Hot Spares

[William Kenworthy]

or do you a bad disk around that you can bring online and see what
happens?

BillK

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:40, 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.
> 
> Craig Ringer
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>