How to fix RAID1 array

2010-01-07 Thread Todd O'Bryan
I have my student home folders on a RAID1 array. One of the hard drives seems to have become corrupted--I'm getting Buffer IO errors. Is the hard drive definitely bad so I should get a new one, or should I try reformatting it and seeing if it works again? Either way, how do I do that? Is there a

Re: How to fix RAID1 array

2010-01-07 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 07 Jan 2010, Todd O'Bryan wrote: I have my student home folders on a RAID1 array. One of the hard drives seems to have become corrupted--I'm getting Buffer IO errors. Ouch. Is that a hardware RAID card or an MD linux software RAID one? Is the hard drive definitely bad so I

Re: How to fix RAID1 array

2010-01-07 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 07 Jan 2010, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Anyone got a link to TFM that I should R before I attempt this? http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html This appears to be the up to date version: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/linux-raid Gavin

Re: How to fix RAID1 array

2010-01-07 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:57:26PM +, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Is the hard drive definitely bad so I should get a new one, or should I try reformatting it and seeing if it works again? As a professional who makes his full time living off of being a sysadmin for a largish Government Entity,

Re: How to fix RAID1 array

2010-01-07 Thread Gavin McCullagh
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Re: How to fix RAID1 array

2010-01-07 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:20:02PM +, Gavin McCullagh wrote: On Thu, 07 Jan 2010, Scott Balneaves wrote: _ _ ____ _ _ | _ \ /\ / | |/ / | | | __ \ / | | |_) | / \ | || ' /| | | | |__) | (___ | _ / /\ \| || | | | |