On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 14:24:22 +0100, you wrote:
make a conf file specifying as failed-disk the drive
you cut the power to, then mkraid, data should be there.
Isn't mkraid destructive any more?
Greetings
Marc
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Marc
Luca Berra wrote on 2/1/00 13:20:
ok, your only chance is to
recreate the disk array.
make a conf file specifying
as failed-disk the drive you
cut the power to, then
mkraid, data should be
there.
Thanks Luca - but I can't get past a kernel panic whilst booting. I might make a
rescue
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Jim Ford wrote:
Luca Berra wrote on 2/1/00 13:20:
ok, your only chance is to
recreate the disk array.
make a conf file specifying
as failed-disk the drive you
cut the power to, then
mkraid, data should be
there.
Thanks Luca - but I can't get past a
If these are SCSI disks
They are - four 1gig Quantum Fireballs on an AHA1542.
I am going to place a guess and assume the 2nd drive that got
kicked was the next furthest drive away from the controller than the one
you unplugged
It was the next _nearest_.
If you power on the drives again and
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 12:55:31PM -, Jim Ford wrote:
I can't get past a kernel panic on boot. Maybe I should have waited longer
before I cut the power to the complete system, to allow Raid to sort itself
out. I suppose I might be able to rescue the system with a rescue setup
running off
If these are SCSI disks, removing power can cause a MULTITUDE of problems
you won't see if the SCSI connection to a drive fails. Unless the drives
and controller aren't the original SCSI 1 8 bit bus, the termination has
power supplied by the drive.
On many drives, you can choose via
BTW: charset windows-1252 is not available here. Also you seem to write HTML
mail, which is also unreadable on quite some systems.
I've been experimenting with my 4 disk Raid5 setup for a few weeks now and been
impressed - so far.
Today, I sucumbed to the temptation of of simulating a disk
Jim Ford wrote:
This experience has made me think - it's no great hardship for me, I'm just
a hobbyist fiddling around with configurations that interest me. But I'd
think again before jumping into software raid for a serious setup.
Jim,
Don't give up just yet. Your bad experience is not
I've been experimenting with my 4 disk Raid5 setup for a few
weeks now and been impressed - so far.
Today, I sucumbed to the temptation of of simulating a disk
failure (or more accurately a power supply failure to a disk), by 'hot'
unplugging its power lead. Nothing appeared to happen at
Jim,
If these are SCSI disks, removing power can cause a MULTITUDE of problems
you won't see if the SCSI connection to a drive fails. Unless the drives
and controller aren't the original SCSI 1 8 bit bus, the termination has
power supplied by the drive. Removing the power kills the
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