Thanks Lynn.

The part that gets me with these questions is if the hardware failure was enough to corrupt the database and the full backup - it would seem to me that you would be unable to perform a tail log backup. After all the failure had to be severe enough that it was able to corrupt files on different drives / luns. Thus I always have to step back and think a little more about it. It must not have been too severe of a hardware failure because the database was able to be brought back online.