Nik Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> as i am able to format "dead" disk under the running os -> is there a
> way try to sync manually ? or how can i check the dead disk, if it is
> really dead ?
Have you tried badblocks ?
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hi ya nik
if you think the hard disk is still working...
you can confirm it by:
a) check for any hda problems in /var/log/*
replace hda with the suspect drive that
is claimed to be bad by the raid5 sw
-you'd have some checking/gambling to do to see
if you have a
Hi,
Please note that with some disks, formatting may not do anything, or do very
little. I was dismayed to buy a 40 MB IDE drive recently and then download the
formatting utility, only to find that it formatted in under 5 seconds.
What I suggest you do is find some software that will do a ba
Hi Alvin!
> if you do have your raid intact... and just a dead disk
> than you can take that disk out and add a new one
>
> -- if you were manually able to recreate /dev/md0
> -- backup all your data now to some other disks
> -- on your lan
>
> -- than cont
hi ya nik
assuming you have 4 out of 5 disks still working as sw raid5
or 3 out of 4 still working... you can rebuild your raid...
if you have 2 dead disks... your entire raid is shot...
unless you wanna go diggin into more funky recovery tools
( manually doing what e2fsck does automatic
Hi !
I have installed a softraid (Level 5 ) on my Debian Sid Box running
Kernel 2.4.17.
Unfortunatly one disk seems to be faulty as the system is no longer able
to sync with that disk. But i can after stopping the raid format the
disk etc.
which tools can i use to verify the state of the disk ?
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