sorry this happened to you......i wish you must speed and reduced stress getting
things back to normal
Matt Nelson wrote:
> Update: we are screwed.
>
> Note to users of the AMI MegaRAID Enterprise 1500: although a logical
> drive can be expanded w/out requiring a backup/restore, you can only add
> ONE NEW DRIVE AT A TIME. attempting to simultaneously add two or more
> new drives to an existing logical volume will result in total data loss.
>
> as this is a well-known limitation (at least within AMI) you would think
> that the BIOS wouldn't let you do this. live and learn.
>
> -matt
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Matthew Nelson
> Dynamics Technology, Inc.
> 21311 Hawthorne Blvd., Suite 300, Torrance, CA 90503-5610
> Voice: (310) 543-5433 FAX: (310) 543-2117 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Matt Nelson wrote:
>
> > ok, here's the sequence of events:
> >
> > - the machine is: dual piii/733, 1G, AMI MegaRAID 1500 (RAID 5, four
> > stripes, 106GB total, 85GB used)
> >
> > - while attempting to expand a logical drive on the RAID, the controller
> > failed two of the existing drives, and ignored the two new drives we
> > were trying to add. this is BAAAD for RAID5.
> >
> > - not having any better recourse, we over-rode the controller, and marked
> > the two failed drives as good.
> >
> > - we re-booted w/out any problems.
> >
> > - second reboot of the day, we got the dreaded 'unexpected error on drive
> > sdb1'.
> >
> > - running 'fsck -y' resulted in: a bazillion screens of output, mostly
> > messages about 'too many bad blocks' and 'clearing inode'.
> >
> > - fsck restarted itself, and has been giving us 'bad or duplicate blocks
> > in inode xxxxx: ' followed by 1100 block numbers. it has reached a
> > point where it is doing this for every inode. it has been doing
> > this for fourteen hours now.
> >
> > and now the question:
> >
> > are we screwed?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > -matt
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Matthew Nelson
> > Dynamics Technology, Inc.
> > 21311 Hawthorne Blvd., Suite 300, Torrance, CA 90503-5610
> > Voice: (310) 543-5433 FAX: (310) 543-2117 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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