On Do, Jul 01, 2004 at 03:40:52 +0100, Marek Isalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Coker writes: > >Having the OS on one disk means that a single disk failure will kill the > >machine. While you may have good backups it's always more convenient > >if you can leave the machine running with a dead disk instead of having > >to do an emergency hardware replacement job. > > I've not tried Linux's software RAID for about 5 years now. How much does > hotswapping a dead IDE drive kill the machine? Does this at all depend on > the IDE controller or can most modern ones cope with the abuse?
IDE does not support Hot-Swapping at all. Get a SCA or SATA based system, if you attach great importance to this feature.
