From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maurice Hilarius Subject: Re: RAID5 recovery trouble, bd_claim failed? Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:41:30 -0600 Message-ID: <44463E0A.8090906@harddata.com> References: <1145106091.18173.18.camel@nemo.qabal.org> <44456474.9040201@harddata.com> <1145403579.15773.1.camel@nemo.qabal.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1145403579.15773.1.camel@nemo.qabal.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, neilb@suse.de, nate@qabal.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Nathanial Byrnes wrote: > Yes, I did not have the funding nor approval to purchase more hardware > when I set it up (read wife). Once it was working... the rest is > history. > > OK, so if you have a pair of IDE disks, jumpered as Master and slave, and if one fails: If Master failed, re-jumper remaining disk on pair on same cable as Master, no slave present If Slave failed, re-jumper remaining disk on pair on same cable as Master, no slave present. Then you will have the remaining disk working normally, at least. When you can afford it I suggest buying a controller with enough ports to support the number of drives you have, with no Master/Slave pairing. Good luck ! And to the software guys trying to help: We need to start with the (obvious) hardware problem, before we advise on how to recover data from a borked system.. Once he has the jumpering on the drives sorted out, the drive that went missing will be back again.. -- Regards, Maurice