Re: RAID 5 inaccessible - continued

2006-02-16 Thread Krekna Mektek
tried that one only once. I need to buy another 500GB disk now to _FIRST_ backup the whole thing. Krekna 2006/2/16, Krekna Mektek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Whoops, sorry, I remember something about LVM... I've setup the system > with LVM, I'm sure of that. In that case I

Re: RAID 5 inaccessible - continued

2006-02-16 Thread Krekna Mektek
10 times. > > Is it working? > > David > > Krekna Mektek wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I am busy with it now, but what does the 10 mean in -r10 ? I > >understand from the --help that one can use the -r option, but without > >something behind it? > >

Re: RAID 5 inaccessible - continued

2006-02-16 Thread Krekna Mektek
Whoops, sorry, I remember something about LVM... I've setup the system with LVM, I'm sure of that. In that case I can't mount /dev/md0 of course.. I need to find out how this stuff works again.. Krekna 2006/2/16, Krekna Mektek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Wel

Re: RAID 5 inaccessible - continued

2006-02-15 Thread Krekna Mektek
en, I have to try this tonight. Krekna 2006/2/15, Burkhard Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 11:35 schrieb Krekna Mektek: > [...] > > Actually, /dev/hdd1 partition is 390708801 blocks, the disk itself is > > a Hitachi 400GB disk. > > So thi

Re: RAID 5 inaccessible - continued

2006-02-15 Thread Krekna Mektek
Hi David, Thank you. I will give ddrescue a shot then. But what is it different than a dd with the noerror conversion? Krekna 2006/2/14, David Greaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Krekna Mektek wrote: > > >I want to rebuilt from the good one and the faulty one. That's why I >

Re: RAID 5 inaccessible - continued

2006-02-15 Thread Krekna Mektek
I tried this one yesterday, with 2.6.15 that is. The same thing happened, at the bad block sectors it tried and skipped some but after a minute or two it stopped again. Hmmmz. Krekna 2006/2/14, Mike Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Krekna Mektek wrote: > > > The dd act

Re: RAID 5 inaccessible - continued

2006-02-14 Thread Krekna Mektek
2006/2/14, Mike Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Krekna Mektek wrote: > > > The dd actually succeeded, and did finish the job in about one day. > > The badblocks were found after about the first 7 Gigs. > > Is this a 3-disk raid5 array? With two healthy disks a

Re: RAID 5 inaccessible - continued

2006-02-14 Thread Krekna Mektek
2006/2/14, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday February 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Krekna is crying out loud in the empty wilderness > > No one there to help me? > > Nope :-) > > > > I did the folowing: > > > > > > dd conv=noerror if=dev/hdd1 of=/mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img > >

Re: RAID 5 inaccessible - continued

2006-02-14 Thread Krekna Mektek
Krekna is crying out loud in the empty wilderness No one there to help me? Krekna 2006/2/13, Krekna Mektek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > All right, this weekend I was able to use dd to create an imagefile > out of the disk. > I did the folowing: > > dd conv=noerror if=dev/hdd

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2006-02-13 Thread Krekna Mektek
: (/dev/hdc1 is spare, probably out of date) DEVICE /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1 /dev/loop0 ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/hdb1,/dev/hdc1,/dev/loop0 or - some other solution? Krekna 2006/2/8, Krekna Mektek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I found out that my storage drive was gone and I went

RAID 5 inaccessible

2006-02-08 Thread Krekna Mektek
Hi, I found out that my storage drive was gone and I went to my server to check out what wrong. I've got 3 400GB disks wich form the array. I found out I had one spare and one faulty drive, and the RAID 5 array was not able to recover. After a reboot because of some stuff with Xen my main rootdis