Re: raid5 stuck in degraded, inactive and dirty mode

2008-01-10 Thread CaT
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 07:16:34PM +1100, CaT wrote: But I suspect that --assemble --force would do the right thing. Without more details, it is hard to say for sure. I suspect so aswell but throwing caution into the wind erks me wrt this raid array. :) Sorry. Not to be a pain but

Re: raid5 stuck in degraded, inactive and dirty mode

2008-01-10 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday January 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 07:16:34PM +1100, CaT wrote: But I suspect that --assemble --force would do the right thing. Without more details, it is hard to say for sure. I suspect so aswell but throwing caution into the wind erks me wrt

Re: raid5 stuck in degraded, inactive and dirty mode

2008-01-10 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:21:42AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: On Thursday January 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 07:16:34PM +1100, CaT wrote: But I suspect that --assemble --force would do the right thing. Without more details, it is hard to say for sure. I

Re: raid5 stuck in degraded, inactive and dirty mode

2008-01-09 Thread CaT
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:52:57PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: On Wednesday January 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd provide data dumps of --examine and friends but I'm in a situation where transferring the data would be a right pain. I'll do it if need be, though. So, what can I do?

raid5 stuck in degraded, inactive and dirty mode

2008-01-08 Thread CaT
Hi, I've got a 4 disk RAID5 array that had one of the disks die. The hassle is that the death was not graceful and triggered a bug in the nforce4 chipset that wound up freezing the northbridge and hence the pc. This has left the array in a degraded state where I cannot add the swanky new HD to

Re: raid5 stuck in degraded, inactive and dirty mode

2008-01-08 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday January 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd provide data dumps of --examine and friends but I'm in a situation where transferring the data would be a right pain. I'll do it if need be, though. So, what can I do? Well, providing the output of --examine would help a lot. But I