[ubuntu-uk] RAID failure after a couple of weeks

[Michael Holloway]

> The hardware controller you mention. Does that support Ubuntu? I
> wouldn't mind buying a hardware RAID card as long as it came with some
> kind of monitoring application (so I could tell remotely if the RAID
> fell over) and it managed to come in at the sub 100 quid price...
> 

In my experience, though mostly with IBM servers... the hardware
controllers are rock solid. 

I'm running about 10-15 IBM servers and 2 HP, 1 of the IBMs is quite old
and doesn't have a hardware controller, so I installed 6.06.1 with
mdadm... about a month or two later, one of the hard drives went down in
a similar manner to what you explained. The other has been working fine
ever since, for about a year now. (It's not an important server so never
bothered fixing it).

Don't know if that means anything...