Re: only 4 spares and no access to my data - solved

2006-07-15 Thread Karl Voit
Molle Bestefich molle.bestefich at gmail.com writes: My best guess is that it's OK and you won't loose data if you run --zero-superblock on /dev/sd[abcd] and then create an array on /dev/sd[abcd]1, but I do find it odd that it suddenly can't find superblocks on /dev/sd[abcd]1. OK, I tried

Re: PLEASE HELP ... raid5 array degraded - how fix it?

2006-07-15 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2006 06:10 schrieben Sie: Care to enlighten the rest of us what did the trick? Dex please disregard this email .. after doing more google research i have re-assembled the array and once again am a true believer of software raid BEHOLD THE POWER OF MD - To

Re: PLEASE HELP ... raid5 array degraded - how fix it?

2006-07-15 Thread Andrew Skolarz
i just forced a re-assemble ... and then it fixed it self mdm -A --force /dev/md0 /dev/hd[ijk]1 (forced re-assemble on the 3 good drives) mdm -a /dev/md0 /dev/hdl1 (re-added the bad drive and it fixed itself) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a

Can't add disk to failed raid array

2006-07-15 Thread Paul Waldo
Hi all, I have a RAID6 array where a disk went bad. I removed the old disk, put in an identical one, and repartitioned the new disk. I am now trying to add the new partition to the array, but I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/hdd2 mdadm: add new device