Software RAID issues (was Re: Suggestions solicited, server bring up)

[Bill McGonigle]

On 11/20/2009 04:43 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
>   You could argue that the alternate scenario above is the fault of
> the BIOS or disk controller, that it should be able to recover from an
> I/O error on disk 0 and move on and try disk 1.  You're prolly right.
> But this is the pee sea platform we're talking about here.  I don't
> really need to explain the environment to you, do I?  ;-)  And the
> BIOS is still helpless once the MBR bootstrap takes over.

Ah, understood.

Yes, CoreBoot and the kernel ought to be able to work this out, but,
agreed, it's not there yet.

-Bill

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