From: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
Cc: Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AARGH! Please help. IDE controller fsckup
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:53:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021003095316.GC7350@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210021516.46668.roy@karlsbakk.net>
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 03:16:46PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> hi all
>
> I have this cute little server with some 16 120gig IDE drives, and I've got
> some serious problems with it.
>
> Controllers:
> One onboard IDE controller (2 channels).
> Two promise ATA100 (2 channels each).
> One CMD649 (2 channels).
>
> something seriously bad about the CMD649 makes Linux beleive it's the first
> controller with hd[abcd]. On these, there are two RAID-1s (/ and /var). Due
> to the fact that the box has some 1,6TB disk space, we haven't got any backup
> solution (we have an identical box in order to mirror them).
>
> so - now - the CMD649 has suddenly begun to fail - losing contact with one or
> two drives, and I _really_ need to get what's on /data (RAID-5 on
> hd[efghijklmnop]) out. Problem is - the replacement controller I've got from
> the vendor works fine (turns up as controller 3 serving hd[mnop]). How can I
> revert this most easily to be able to boot again?
Hindsight: had you used persistent superblocks, this would not have
been a problem. The kernel would know the correct ordering from the
superblocks, not the device names.
Solution 1: Write to the RAID mailing list and have one of the mdadm
gurus give you a one-liner to initialize the array with the proper
ordering.
Solution 2: Edit your /etc/raidtab to reflect the new device naming and
run raidstart.
If you start up the array with a bad ordering, no amount of magic is
going to bring back you data (after parity has been "reconstructed" on
various chunks of your existing data).
>
> I hope this is not too off topic... Please excuse that.
>
linux-raid is a better place.
Cheers,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-03 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-02 13:16 AARGH! Please help. IDE controller fsckup Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-03 9:53 ` Jakob Oestergaard [this message]
2002-10-03 10:25 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-03 11:40 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-10-03 13:13 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-03 13:23 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-10-03 20:05 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-10-05 15:42 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
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