Re: RAID1 drive replacement help?

2009-09-22 Thread Jeffrey C. Smith
Paul M wrote: Thinking about this some more, I suspect that what may be happening is that the disk still thinks it is a spare. Try blowing away the RAID partition, possibly even replace it with a regular partition and write data to it just to make sure. Then delete that, recreate the RAID

Re: RAID1 drive replacement help?

2009-09-20 Thread Paul M
On 18/09/2009, at 3:23 PM, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: Paul M wrote: On 18/09/2009, at 2:28 PM, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: Now, I try to reconstruct /dev/wd1d (the failed drive): # raidctl -v -R /dev/wd1d raid0 raidctl: /dev/wd1d is not a component of this device Still no luck. Any more ideas???

Re: RAID1 drive replacement help?

2009-09-17 Thread Paul M
On 17/09/2009, at 4:27 PM, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: Paul M wrote: On 16/09/2009, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: I am trying to add a new drive to replace a failed drive on my RAID1 OpenBSD system. I have read the available documentation but can't get the drive added permanently. Here's

Re: RAID1 drive replacement help?

2009-09-17 Thread Jeffrey C. Smith
Paul M wrote: According to the man page (if my memory is correct), the name component1 is a placeholder used by raidctl when it is unable to access the drive - in other words this component is bad. Remove the drive completely and it will still list it as component1. So component1 is not the

Re: RAID1 drive replacement help?

2009-09-17 Thread Paul M
On 18/09/2009, at 2:28 PM, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: Now, I try to reconstruct /dev/wd1d (the failed drive): # raidctl -v -R /dev/wd1d raid0 raidctl: /dev/wd1d is not a component of this device Still no luck. Any more ideas??? Thanks, Jeff Has your raid0.conf file changed? The one you posted

Re: RAID1 drive replacement help?

2009-09-17 Thread Jeffrey C. Smith
Paul M wrote: On 18/09/2009, at 2:28 PM, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: Now, I try to reconstruct /dev/wd1d (the failed drive): # raidctl -v -R /dev/wd1d raid0 raidctl: /dev/wd1d is not a component of this device Still no luck. Any more ideas??? Thanks, Jeff Has your raid0.conf file changed?

Re: RAID1 drive replacement help?

2009-09-16 Thread Jeffrey C. Smith
Paul M wrote: On 16/09/2009, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: I am trying to add a new drive to replace a failed drive on my RAID1 OpenBSD system. I have read the available documentation but can't get the drive added permanently. Here's what I've done so far- ... Any feedback would be

RAID1 drive replacement help?

2009-09-15 Thread Jeffrey C. Smith
I am trying to add a new drive to replace a failed drive on my RAID1 OpenBSD system. I have read the available documentation but can't get the drive added permanently. Here's what I've done so far- First, add the drive as a spare: # raidctl -a /dev/wd1d raid0 Checking the status gives: #