HELP!!!!!!!!!!! So far Ive built the raid1 partition 4 times, incl 2 re-installs from scratch of the OS. its lost the superblock once from which I couldnt recover so I started again from scratch........ I dump test files on it with touch and nano, reboot several times to test the stop and start scripts for the raid (wont autodetect for some reason) Twice its seems to have lost sync and re-synced itself but that takes 90 odd minutes) on the three occasions, It usually starts by loosing data about the 1 gig mark on restore off a dlt ( I made multiple backups and have tried different tapes for the restore), the system has appeared to try and automatically re-sync and succeeds before i have put any data on it except for a coupl of test files. I get some data onto the partition (i cd to it to check files are being written with ls -al, run df -h etc all seems well) and then sometime (minutes) later i get seek errors on hda and all the files/data disappears off the raid1 partition. I umount the partition, raidstop (a script i wrote) when i init to 1 then raidstart /dev/md0 manually so I can fsck it which reports no errors and everything is hunky dorry........except when i reboot no data is there its totally disappeared! Ive varied the position and size of the partition on hda and hdd, yet it appears to be a constant loosing of the "contents " of the raid1 partition. I assume from this it isnt a hw fault. The machine is 18 months old and has run faultlessly during that time.........acting as my samba/dhcp server....... Ive run this as non-raid on just hda2 and then hdd1 and copied data on and off to dlt no problems, fsck shows no problems.....im scratching my head here..........The old raidtools was fine but this new raidtools2 seems very problematic. Ive come down to a kernel or raid tool sw problem......... System is a cerelon433a 128 meg of ram 2 x 15 gig hd's (one on each eide channel). Scsi controller is a adaptec aha1542cp with an external tk88/dlt4000 tape drive. The hd's are smart capable and status says is OK. Ive had no fsck problems or other reports of problems in 18months it was on line it was install and forget, now im trying to raid1 it..........ug! Any ideas on why this is happening please? way forward? thanks Steven aka Thing - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
