Re: RAID 5 vs duplexing

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From: Roger Kresge
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 00:00

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tsr@clark.net (Tay Systems Research) wrote:

>We "sort of" had that happen to one of our sites two weeks ago, ona
>ProSignia that had a duplexed subsystem, which consists of the integrated
>Compaq adapter and an Adaptec EISA adapter with two Micropolis 3 GB
>drives.  

>One of the drives failed, and the other continued to function. When it
>came time to replace the drive, during the reinstallation, something went
>wrong somewhere in NetWare's resynchronization and it caused the "good"
>drive to get corrupted.  Result?  A day's worth of data was lost. :-(

Hmmmmmm....  I've seen a few otherwise knowledgeable system engineers
(even a CNE who *should* have known better) install a new drive and
mirror the good drive to the empty new one.  Kind of hard on the data,
doing that.  Suppose that's what might have caused the good drive to
get "corrupted"?

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From: rkresge@web.iis-centpa.com (Roger Kresge)
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Date: 1996/05/30
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