[mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

[Kevin Kuphal]

Brandon Beattie wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:07:50PM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote:
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>>Other hints ...
>>Don't put more than one ide drive on a single ide channel.   A failing
>>drive often takes out the bus.  SATA drives make sense, but SMART
>>support for SATA is still under development.  You should also make
>>sure that your SATA chipset has got linux support!
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>Do you have any references about this?  I've never seen this happen in
>about 50 drives I've seen fail.  .. The only time I've seen more than 1
>drive go out at once is due to an electrical problem in the system.
>I've seen ruined drives on the same power cable, power supply, but not 
>the same IDE channel.
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Perhaps, but a failure in the bus could take out multiple drives 
(logically, not physically) and once you lose two drives in RAID 5, 
you're done.

Kevin