I had already read that thread and trying that was one of the first things I did. No joy. I finally ran out of options and simply re- built the array from scratch. I copied all 4.5T of data from the backup, and have manually re-built most of the missing files. Shortly after the rsync was compete, I suffered another 2 drive aborts, and now I'm adding back one of the drives and re-syncing. After this drive re-syncs, I'll pull the (hopefully) last aborted drive and move it into the CPU chassis.
I'm definitely sorry I ever bought this JBOD chassis. None of the drives fail again after they are moved out of the chassis. On Dec 23, 2:25 pm, "Daniel Eggleston" <[email protected]> wrote: > Couldn't you just print out a hexdump of the drives on paper and peruse the > data manually for the next few million years? > > But, not to make light -- I'm not an expert on RAID, but here's a diary > posted to a forum that sounds something a little similar to what's going on > with you, and he solved his problem: > > http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/servers/77867-eeek-cant-assemble-deg... > > > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:04 PM, lrhorer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't have a way to image 10 Terrabytes worth of drives. I've > > gotten the backup system back online, but that still leaves quite a > > few large files I will have to recover by other means unless I can get > > this array to start. > > > On Dec 23, 10:30 am, "Robert Citek" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:28 PM, lrhorer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > How can I force mdadm to assemble and run at least 8 of the drives? > > > > I don't know and I'm not sure if you want to do that, yet. There may > > > be a legitimate reason mdadm is refusing to assemble. > > > > > To answer the obvious question, I do have a backup > > > > system, but it failed 3 days ago, and it's going to be a while before > > > > the backup system can be repaired. > > > > Sounds like that means you do not have a backup. How comfortable do > > > you feel working on these drives without a safety net? If you feel a > > > tad nervous, you might want to consider imaging all the drives. > > > > Regards, > > > - Robert > > -- > > Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
