From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id oA1A6Rta199133 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 05:06:27 -0500 Received: from smtp3-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 50123141F32 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 03:07:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3-g21.free.fr (smtp3-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.3]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id TiBVKvkldr9tl7Gt for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:07:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:07:34 +0100 From: Emmanuel Florac Subject: Re: xfs_repair of critical volume Message-ID: <20101101110734.3ce15556@galadriel.home> In-Reply-To: <1A57C61E-463F-4CB4-967C-DD6B66857E28@ucsc.edu> References: <20101031214021.686f43b8@galadriel.home> <1A57C61E-463F-4CB4-967C-DD6B66857E28@ucsc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Eli Morris Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Le Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:40:20 -0700 vous =E9criviez: > 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. -- = ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique | Intellique | | +33 1 78 94 84 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs