In the last year I've suffered two software raid crashes that took out two
drives each, rendering the raid set unusable. The first was a hard crash
where both drives basically melted. The current crash was probably due to
a temporary overheat problem. One drive dropped out of the set, and then
played games on the scsi bus to cause the second drive to fail, thus
rendering the raid5 set unusable.
Both of the drives that have dropped out of the raid5 set now check out
fine under the adaptec diagnostics.
Of course, I have a half dozen files that I would like to recover from the
crashed raid set. Before I switched to the kernel based method of raid
recognition, I seem to recall a ckraid --force-sync option, or some such,
that allowed me to convince the raid set that it was a valid raid set. I
can't find the equivalent option in the raidtools-.90 that is running on
this machine. Is there a way to convince a raid set that it's still
synced to itself?
________
mike
There are really only 25 people in the computer business. They just
keep changing jobs. - Robert X Cringley
I guess I really am an optimist. A paranoid optimist, true,
but an optimist nonetheless. - Larry Wall
