Thanks guys. Is there an easy way to wipe that first 25 MB under Windows? I don't have access to a Linux system at the moment.
Tim, I've been running a RAID 5 in my HTPC for about 4 years now and do find it fairly simple. However, there is a high level of stress when something goes wrong, because I know that a second failure can cause me to lose everything. For that reason, I am considering switching to a FlexRAID. --------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Christopher Fisk <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Tim Lider wrote: > > Hello Brian, >> >> Your best bet is to replace the hard drive with another 1TB of the same >> size. Insert the drive into the RAID and it will rebuild. >> >> Pretty easy, eh? >> > > I would go a bit further and say the original drive *probably* isn't bad, > just got corrupted during the power down. > > > Put the drive that is degraded into another system and wipe the first 25MB > or so of the drive. > > Linux: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M count=25 > > That will clear out any drive sigs put by the raid card and it should > detect it as a new drive and rebuild to it. > > > Christopher Fisk > -- > <Method> everything happening in the computer industry has made me > almost want to quit it all and wax surfboards in nz for a living > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > >
