Re: Failed Hard Disk... help!

2006-06-10 Thread Ric Wheeler
David M. Strang wrote: /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

RAID5 troubles

2006-06-10 Thread osk
Hi I have three SATA 250 GB disks with two partitions on each one. The first partition from each disk form a RAID1 array which is my root partition. The second partition of each disk form a RAID5. Everything was working fine, then I had to power off/on the machine as it was hanging. At next