[SunHELP] How does raid set work?

[Takacs Istvan]

Hi,

Solaris 8, Enterprise 250, 5x17GB HDD in RAID 5

This morning in our RAID 5 set two HDDs died.
I thought that I need to use RAID sets for high-availability,
so if one, or two disks have some problems than the others
are going to work away and the users wont missing those
bad disks...

But the raid set was unaccessible and I had to delete the
RAID and then create a completely new one and use
our backups to load the data back.

Is this the normal functioning of the RAID set, or did I missed
something?

Thanks in advance!

Regards;

		Istvan