On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 16:22 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: > AFAICT this is all you need to know -- you definitely have two software > (mdraid) RAID 1 volumes: > > md100 with hda2, hde2 and hdg2 as members > md101 with hda5, hde5 and hdg5 as members > > Both arrays seem to have lost a member (I guess hdc2 and hdc5 respectively). > > Honestly I don't know what is the point of running RAID1 volumes with > four mirrors, but that seems to be the way it was configured.
strange, I'm pretty sure I didn't configure it like this - however it has an inbuilt snapshot feature so maybe that's what the mirrors are for... I'm having some luck chasing up the original CDs so I think I'll try that first. thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> If it smells it's chemistry, if it crawls it's biology, if it doesn't work it's physics.