RAID Questions again... ;)

[Matthew Carpenter]

In Linux Software RAID, if the sync process is interrupted, does it start from 
the beginning or is it intelligent enough to pick up where it left off?

I have a failing drive I'm attempting to sync down to a new drive.  Yes, I 
know it's bad to let the last drive fail, but this box has been one failure 
after the other.
I got to sector 175606192 out of 234436482 and the drive gives me "hda: lost 
interrupt"
This happened before and a reboot allowed the drive to come back online, but 
I'm trying to determine whether I should try again or split off the new drive 
and rsync.  I'm getting the impression that this drive has a limited time 
online before this happens, and a limited time to live.

Thanks,
Matt

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