[SunHELP] How does raid set work?

[Edward Chase]

Your RAID set should have handled one drive dying, I belive that your 
problems stem from having more than one die at the same time.


At 04:31 PM 7/10/2002 +0200, Takacs Istvan wrote:
>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