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From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: Eli Morris <ermorris@ucsc.edu>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs_repair of critical volume
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:07:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101101110734.3ce15556@galadriel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1A57C61E-463F-4CB4-967C-DD6B66857E28@ucsc.edu>

Le Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:40:20 -0700 vous écriviez:

> Thanks for your help. The RAID is a SCSI connected direct attached
> storage 16 bay unit made by Maxtronic. It is a Janus 6640, is case
> that helps anything.

Alas, never heard of it... Looks like a quite low end hardware, without
redundant controllers. Probably similar to Infortrend. The possibility
of an unreliable firmware cannot be excluded with these :)

> At the time of its problem, it was mounted
> read-only as I was trying to be careful of the data, since the main
> volume failed and this was our only copy. So maybe the cache isn't a
> big deal.

Indeed, nothing to lose in RO mode.

> I'll try the "dead" drives tomorrow with a WD utility. I'll
> give Spinrite a try, if the WD utility doesn't revive them.

Good luck.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-01 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-31 19:56 xfs_repair of critical volume Eli Morris
2010-10-31 20:40 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-11-01  3:40   ` Eli Morris
2010-11-01 10:07     ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]
2010-10-31 21:10 ` Steve Costaras
2010-11-01 15:03 ` Stan Hoeppner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-10-31  7:54 Eli Morris
2010-10-31  9:54 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-11-12  8:48   ` Eli Morris
2010-11-12 13:22     ` Michael Monnerie
2010-11-12 22:14       ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-11-13  8:19         ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-11-13  9:28           ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-11-13 15:35             ` Michael Monnerie
2010-11-14  3:31               ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-04 10:30         ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-12-05  4:49           ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-05  9:44             ` Roger Willcocks
2010-11-12 23:01       ` Eli Morris
2010-11-13 15:25         ` Michael Monnerie
2010-11-14 11:05         ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-15  4:09           ` Eli Morris
2010-11-16  0:04             ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-17  7:29               ` Eli Morris
2010-11-17  7:47                 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-30  7:22                   ` Eli Morris
2010-12-02 11:33                     ` Michael Monnerie
2010-12-03  0:58                       ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-04  0:43                       ` Eli Morris
2010-10-31 14:10 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-10-31 14:41   ` Steve Costaras
2010-10-31 16:52 ` Roger Willcocks
2010-11-01 22:21 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-11-01 23:32   ` Eli Morris
2010-11-02  0:14     ` Eric Sandeen

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