Scott> I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with PERC 5/i, and 6 disks. Two Scott> disks have one logical volume via a hardware RAID 1 and consist Scott> of CentOS 5 64-bit; the remaining four comprise a logical Scott> volume via a hardware RAID 0, and is all user data.
Umm... you know that RAID0 doesn't offer *any* data protection, right? In this case, you may as well goto your backups since you're toast. Scott> One drive on the RAID 0 went bad. I removed it while the Scott> system was on, tried a reboot, and the system hangs at RedHat Scott> Linux... Starting It would probably time out eventually... Scott> I tried to boot from a Fedora 8 CD, which sees the boot drives Scott> fine, but not the RAID 0 partitions. Sure, you broke it even more when you removed the disk. Scott> Visiting the PERC controller setup claims the RAID 0 volume is Scott> unavailable, or something similar, though it is defined, with Scott> one of the disks labelled as missing, since I removed it from Scott> the system. Scott> How do I get the partitions on the RAID 0 setup back? I have Scott> some of the data, but need the rest, if possible, and the Scott> remaining three disks appear physically healthy. I'm also Scott> going to work with Dell for some answers, and I've done a lot Scott> of googling. You're toast. Goto backups... _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
