Re: Help needed - RAID5 recovery from Power-fail - SOLVED

2006-04-05 Thread Nigel J. Terry
Thanks for all the help. I am now up and running again and have been stable for over a day. I will now install my new drive and add it to give me an array of three drives. I'll also learn more about Raid, mdadm and smartd so that I am better prepared next time. Thanks again Nigel Neil Brown

Re: Help needed - RAID5 recovery from Power-fail

2006-04-04 Thread David Greaves
Neil Brown wrote: On Monday April 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if you could help a Raid Newbie with a problem snip It looks like you lost a drive a while ago. Did you notice? This is not unusual - raid just keeps on going if a disk fails. When things are working again you

Re: Help needed - RAID5 recovery from Power-fail

2006-04-04 Thread Al Boldi
Neil Brown wrote: 2 devices in a raid5?? Doesn't seem a lot of point it being raid5 rather than raid1. Wouldn't a 2-dev raid5 imply a striped block mirror (i.e faster) rather than a raid1 duplicate block mirror (i.e. slower) ? Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Help needed - RAID5 recovery from Power-fail

2006-04-03 Thread Nigel J. Terry
I wonder if you could help a Raid Newbie with a problem I had a power fail, and now I can't access my RAID array. It has been working fine for months until I lost power... Being a fool, I don't have a full backup, so I really need to get this data back. I run FC4 (64bit). I have an array of two

Re: Help needed - RAID5 recovery from Power-fail

2006-04-03 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday April 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if you could help a Raid Newbie with a problem I had a power fail, and now I can't access my RAID array. It has been working fine for months until I lost power... Being a fool, I don't have a full backup, so I really need to get this data