The first line should have been "I got the impression he was looking at
software based RAID, and not Hardware RAID 5 solution.."
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Alex Hewitt USG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Ed Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Greater NH Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: RAID recovery
> hardware RAID 5 solution..
>
> I believe what is required is to use ckraid /etc/raid5.conf --fix. If
> you know what disk is the "good" disk, you can force it to use that drive
to
> sync the rest by using ckraid /etc/raid5.conf --fix --force-source
/dev/hdb1
> (If hdb1 is one of the good copies).
>
> If you simply run ckraid /etc/raid5.conf, it won;t fix anything, but
> tell you what needs to be fixed.
>
> Refer to Software-RAID HOWTO under section 4) Error recovery for more
> information..
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alex Hewitt USG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ed Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Greater NH Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 10:44 AM
> Subject: Re: RAID recovery
>
>
> > If it's a true RAID 5 device it should have an automatic recovery mode.
> > That is it should take the redundant data from the remaining 2 disks and
> > rebuild the 3rd disk in place.
> >
> > -Alex
> >
> >
> > Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
> >
> > "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it
> > said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." -
Anonymous
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Ed Robbins wrote:
> >
> > > Hey everyone, I have a RAID 5 device built between 3 drives and one of
> > > the drives failed. How do I get the kernel to rebuild the stripe on
> > > that drive? I'm using persistant superblocks for the autodetection
and
> > > the only way I see to do it is by running mkraid, but it appears that
> > > this will destroy the data that's already there. Any info would be
> > > greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > --
> > > Ed Robbins
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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