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From: Christian Pernegger <pernegger@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is My Data DESTROYED?!
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:46:49 +0200
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> I believe you are confusing raid with backup.

For lots of people the primary role of RAID is as a protection against
data-loss nowadays. Backups just aren't feasible/cost-effective
anymore for the amounts of data involved. Sticking your head in the
sand and repeating that mantra doesn't change that and it isn't
helping.

> The easiest and cleanest solution is to dd the first and last 100mb or
> so of the disks with /dev/zero.

Great, that'll destroy all hope of getting the data back. You're
really something ...

How about don't panic, post any and all error messages you're getting
(dmesg) and wait?

C.