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/hdd1

Re: RAID 5 inaccessible - continued

2006-02-14 Thread Neil Brown
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 losetup /dev/loop0 /mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img .. But it did

Re: NVRAM support

2006-02-14 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:54:44AM +, Andy Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:22:04AM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 05:02:02PM -0800, dean gaudet wrote: it doesn't seem to make any sense at all to use a non-volatile external memory for swap... swap has no

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 losetup /dev/loop0

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 and one bad disk? Hi Mike! It is a 3 disk array,

Re: RAID 5 inaccessible - continued

2006-02-14 Thread David Greaves
Krekna Mektek wrote: I want to rebuilt from the good one and the faulty one. That's why I wanted to dd the disk to an image file, but it complains it has no boot sector. I did the folowing: dd conv=noerror if=dev/hdd1 of=/mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img losetup /dev/loop0

Re: 2+ raid sets, sata and a missing hd question

2006-02-14 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:45:21PM +1100, CaT wrote: Seeing as how SATA drives can move around if one removes one from a set (ie given sda, sdb, sdc, if sdb was removed sdc drops to sdb) would md6 come back up without problems if I were to remove either sda or sdb. if you configured mdadm