From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Titus Winters Subject: Re: Not-fresh + failure Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:24:35 -0700 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020619092435.A6189@cs.hmc.edu> References: <20020618162813.A2366@cs.hmc.edu> <20020618233748.GA13086@unthought.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020618233748.GA13086@unthought.net>; from jakob@unthought.net on Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:37:48AM +0200 To: Jakob Oestergaard , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids My apologies for asking a question that was in the FAQ. I thought the not-fresh attribute was perhaps recoverable with something less scary than mkraid --force. Turns out this was the correct solution, and my data is recovered, safe and sound. Thank you very much. -Titus On (06/19 01:37), Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:28:13PM -0700, Titus Winters wrote: > > Please help my poor file server:=20 > >=20 > > I've got 4 scsi drives on two controllers running RAID-5 in softwar= e. > >=20 > > So as near as I can tell I've got one drive that failed and cut off= =20 > > communications with the other disk on the SCSI controller (or somet= hing) > > which made that second drive become not-fresh before the kernel pan= icked. > >=20 > > dmseg says that one is not-fresh, and the other is faulty. How do = I > > proceed without data loss? I've tried raidhotadd to bring up the=20 > > not-fresh drive, but the raid device can't start up and thus I can'= t=20 > > hot add it. =20 >=20 > Section 6.1 in the Software RAID HOWTO: >=20 > http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO-6.html#s= s6.1 >=20 > --=20 > ................................................................ > : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : > :.........................: putrid forms of man : > : Jakob =D8stergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : > : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : > :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html