Failed Hard Disk... help!

2006-06-09 Thread David M. Strang
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -([EMAIL PROTECTED])-(/)- # Thanks, David M. Strang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Failed Hard Disk... help!

2006-06-09 Thread David M. Strang
/Patrick wrote: pretty sure smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdwhatever will tell you the serial number. (Hopefully the kernel is new enough that it supports SATA/smart, otherwise you need a kernel patch which won't be any better...) Yep... 2.6.15 or better... I need the magical patch =\. Any other

Horrific Raid 5 crash... help!

2006-05-07 Thread David M. Strang
proceed any further... what are my options? Do I have any options? I could run a fsck... but I held off fearing it could just make things worse. Thanks, David M. Strang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

2006-01-05 Thread David M. Strang
. Any suggestions? I don't have any 'non-raid' bootable devices. -- David M. Strang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

2006-01-04 Thread David M. Strang
hasn't started. Help! -- David M. Strang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Booting from raid1 -- md: invalid raid superblock magic on sdb1

2005-11-27 Thread David M. Strang
!) Is that feasible with an initrd? Since I'm not intending to have any standard partitions. -- David M. Strang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH] Fix for Booting from raid1 -- md: invalid raid superblock mag

2005-11-27 Thread David M. Strang
On Sunday 27 November 2005 16:18:23, Raphaël Rigo wrote Hi, here is a patch that fixes the problem described by David M. Stra. The problem is that the array is first initialized with SET_ARRAY_INFO without any specific parameter and the md driver uses the 0.90 behaviour by default. So we

Re: Booting from raid1 -- md: invalid raid superblock magic on sdb1

2005-11-27 Thread David M. Strang
rather learn (use) it. -- David M. Strang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Booting from raid1 -- md: invalid raid superblock magic on sdb1

2005-11-27 Thread David M. Strang
EVMS in the past... I was trying to grow my raid5. It looks like it would have done the job, except it was going to take a week... I opted to go the backup, recreate, and restore route. -- David M. Strang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body

Booting from raid1 -- md: invalid raid superblock magic on sdb1

2005-11-26 Thread David M. Strang
PROTECTED])-(~)- # mdadm -Q /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: is not an md array /dev/sdb1: device 1 in 2 device unknown raid1 array. Use mdadm --examine for more detail. I'm really confused; mdadm seems to recognize it and load it fine... why can't I get the kernel to load it? -- David M. Strang

Re: Booting from raid1 -- md: invalid raid superblock magic on sdb1

2005-11-26 Thread David M. Strang
On Saturday 26 November 2005 12:16:14, Guillaume Filion wrote: Le 05-11-26, à 11:18, David M. Strang a écrit : md: invalid raid superblock magic on sdb1 Did you include the md and raid1 modules in mkinirtd.conf? I'll admit that while I have my root on a raid1 device, I'm a bit confused

Re: Booting from raid1 -- md: invalid raid superblock magic on sdb1

2005-11-26 Thread David M. Strang
On Saturday 26 November 2005 11:14:46, David M. Strang wrote: sdb1 is a 400GB partition -- it is type FD. Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 97677846 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id

Re: Booting from raid1 -- md: invalid raid superblock magic on sdb1

2005-11-26 Thread David M. Strang
On Saturday 26 November 2005 14:03:35, David M. Strang wrote: On Saturday 26 November 2005 11:14:46, David M. Strang wrote: sdb1 is a 400GB partition -- it is type FD. Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 97677846 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512

Re: Drive fails raid6 array is not self rebuild .

2005-09-09 Thread David M. Strang
NeilBrown wrote: Hmm.. obviously hot-add isn't enough to trigger the rebuild in that kernel. I can attest to this; as I workaround I've been using: mdadm --readonly /dev/mdX mdadm --readwrite /dev/mdX That will trigger a rebuild. -- David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Drive fails raid6 array is not self rebuild .

2005-09-09 Thread David M. Strang
Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: Hello David , Thank you for the idea . But ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # mdadm --readonly /dev/md_d0 mdadm: failed to set readonly for /dev/md_d0: Device or resource busy James -- umount /dev/md_d0 first; you can remount it right after you re-enable writes.

Re: why the kernel and mdadm report differently

2005-09-05 Thread David M. Strang
Farkas Levente wrote: this is mdadm 1.12, just another site note there is no rpm for version 2.0:-( No. I seem to remember some odd compile issue with making the RPM and thinking I don't care. Maybe I should care a bit more would be useful. Not trying to be rude; but the install

Re: MD or MDADM bug?

2005-09-02 Thread David M. Strang
Neil Brown wrote: On Friday September 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Brown wrote: On Friday September 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you run that with '-v' for me? mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0 mdadm: /dev/sda is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 0.

Re: MD or MDADM bug?

2005-09-02 Thread David M. Strang
Neil Brown wrote: On Friday September 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Brown wrote: On Friday September 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this mean I'm going to loose all my data? No. At least, you shouldn't, and doing the --create won't make anything worse. So do the

MD or MDADM bug?

2005-09-01 Thread David M. Strang
This is somewhat of a crosspost from my thread yesterday; but I think it deserves it's own thread atm. Some time ago, I had a device fail -- with the help of Neil, Tyler others on the mailing list; a few patches to mdadm -- I was able to recover. Using mdadm --remove mdadm --add, I was able

Re: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device

2005-08-31 Thread David M. Strang
; and see what happens. -- David M. Strang - Original Message - From: Forrest Taylor To: David M. Strang Cc: Linux RAID Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:28 PM Subject: Re: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 13:26, David M. Strang wrote: Okay, my

Re: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device

2005-08-31 Thread David M. Strang
. Strang Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:29 PM Subject: Re: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device David M. Strang wrote: Okay, my array is degraded -- and the device /dev/sdm is disabled. Short of a reboot, is there a way to re-enable the device? It's already

Re: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device

2005-08-31 Thread David M. Strang
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Re: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device

2005-08-31 Thread David M. Strang
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:45, David M. Strang wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:39, Forrest Taylor wrote: If you are running 2.4 kernel, did you try running rescan-scsi-bus.sh (http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh)? uname -ar Linux abyss 2.6.11.12 #2 SMP Thu Jul 21 07:49:40 UTC

Re: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device

2005-08-31 Thread David M. Strang
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:55, Forrest Taylor wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:45, David M. Strang wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:39, Forrest Taylor wrote: If you are running 2.4 kernel, did you try running rescan-scsi-bus.sh (http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh)? uname -ar

Re: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device

2005-08-31 Thread David M. Strang
Is there something a little deeper to this error message? Aug 31 04:48:15 abyss kernel: scsi2 (12:0): rejecting I/O to offline device Aug 31 04:48:15 abyss kernel: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device. This error would make me think that the disk is bad. Have you tested the disk, or

Re: RAID-5 Expansion

2005-08-29 Thread David M. Strang
EMVS supports this -- http://evms.sourceforge.net However, in my experience -- it's really slow; and it was faster for me to backup the data to tape; recreate the raid and restore. It may be faster now; that was under release v2.5.1 David M. Strang - Original Message - From

Rebuilt Array Issue

2005-08-11 Thread David M. Strang
160 26 active sync /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target26/lun0/disc Is it supposed to stay with number 26 as removed forever? Does number 28 ever jump back up to that spot? I shouldn't have to hotadd and allow it to resync everytime I re-assemble the raid should I? -- David M. Strang

Re: Raid5 Failure

2005-07-17 Thread David M. Strang
-0 superblocks. Jul 17 20:22:05 abyss kernel: md0: HOT_ADD may only be used with version-0 superblocks. Still no go with -a or -add. -- David M. Strang - Original Message - From: Tyler To: David M. Strang Cc: Neil Brown ; linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 8:05

Re: Raid5 Failure

2005-07-17 Thread David M. Strang
. Breakpoint 1, Manage_subdevs (devname=0xbfe75e5f /dev/md0, fd=7, devlist=0x8067018) at Manage.c:174 174 void *dsuper = NULL; (gdb) c Continuing. mdadm: hot add failed for /dev/sdaa: Invalid argument Program exited with code 01. (gdb) -- David M. Strang - Original Message

Re: Raid5 Failure

2005-07-17 Thread David M. Strang
return 1; (gdb) n 307 } (gdb) n main (argc=5, argv=0xbfe0cb14) at mdadm.c:810 810 if (!rv readonly 0) (gdb) n 812 if (!rv runstop) (gdb) n 1072exit(rv); (gdb) n Program exited with code 01. -- David M. Strang

Re: Raid5 Failure

2005-07-17 Thread David M. Strang
= -1208577344, state = -1208582100, active_disks = -1208448832, working_disks = -1079477752, failed_disks = -1209047199, spare_disks = 5, layout = -1079477052, chunk_size = 134623392} -- David M. Strang - Original Message - From: David M. Strang To: unlisted-recipients: ; no To-header on input

Re: Raid5 Failure

2005-07-17 Thread David M. Strang
, degraded. What do I do next? What I wanted to do was to put /dev/sdaa back in as device 26, but now it's device 28 - and flagged as spare. How do I make it active in the array again? -- David M. Strang - Original Message - From: Neil Brown To: David M. Strang Cc: linux-raid

Re: Raid5 Failure

2005-07-17 Thread David M. Strang
. Strang - Original Message - From: Neil Brown To: David M. Strang Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 10:15 PM Subject: Re: Raid5 Failure On Sunday July 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil -- That worked, the device has been added to the array. Now, I think the next

Raid5 Failure

2005-07-14 Thread David M. Strang
are all marked clean; while sdn-sdab are marked active. What can I do to resolve this issue? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. -- David M. Strang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Raid5 Failure

2005-07-14 Thread David M. Strang
sync /dev/evms/.nodes/sdz 26 65 160 26 active sync /dev/evms/.nodes/sdaa 27 65 176 27 active sync /dev/evms/.nodes/sdab -- David M. Strang - Original Message - From: Neil Brown To: David M. Strang Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent