Re: USB disks for RAID storage (was Re: Please help me save my data)

2006-09-18 Thread Molle Bestefich
Martin Kihlgren writes: And no, nothing hangs except the disk access to the device in question when a disk fails. Sounds good! +1 for USB... My Seagate disks DO generate too much heat if I stack them on top of each other, which their form factor suggests they would accept. Starts to take

Re: Please help me save my data

2006-09-16 Thread Molle Bestefich
Patrick Hoover wrote: Is anyone else having issues with USB interfaced disks to implement RAID? Any thoughts on Pros / Cons for doing this? Sounds like a very good stress test for MD. I often find servers completely hung when a disk fails, this usually happens in the IDE layer. If using USB

Re: Please help me save my data

2006-09-16 Thread martin . kihlgren
Patrick Hoover wrote: Is anyone else having issues with USB interfaced disks to implement RAID? Any thoughts on Pros / Cons for doing this? Sounds like a very good stress test for MD. I often find servers completely hung when a disk fails, this usually happens in the IDE layer. If using

USB disks for RAID storage (was Re: Please help me save my data)

2006-09-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
Patrick Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone else having issues with USB interfaced disks to implement RAID? Any thoughts on Pros / Cons for doing this? I have done, as a trial. USB disk support in recent 2.6 based distributions was quite stable and reliable, and I had no significant

Re: Please help me save my data

2006-09-11 Thread martin . kihlgren
On 9/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what I want to do is: * Mark the synced spare drive as working and in position 1 * Assemble the array without the unsynced spare and check if this provides consistent data * If it didnt, I want to mark the synced spare as

Re: Please help me save my data

2006-09-11 Thread Patrick Hoover
On 9/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what I want to do is: * Mark the synced spare drive as working and in position 1 * Assemble the array without the unsynced spare and check if this provides consistent data

Re: Please help me save my data

2006-09-09 Thread Tuomas Leikola
On 9/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what I want to do is: * Mark the synced spare drive as working and in position 1 * Assemble the array without the unsynced spare and check if this provides consistent data * If it didnt, I want to mark the synced spare as working

Please help me save my data

2006-09-08 Thread martin . kihlgren
Hello list. I have a spot of trouble with a RAID5 array of mine, and I thought maybe you could help me. This is the story so far: * I bought 10 external USB drives. This seemed like a good idea, they are cheap, they are hot-pluggable and they are fast enough. * I set them up in two RAID5

Please help me save my data

2006-09-08 Thread martin . kihlgren
Hello list. I have a spot of trouble with a RAID5 array of mine, and I thought maybe you could help me. This is the story so far: * I bought 10 external USB drives. This seemed like a good idea, they are cheap, they are hot-pluggable and they are fast enough. * I set them up in two RAID5