also sprach Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.20.2114 +0200]: > It did on the first failure. Then another failed and I turned the > machine off. When I got 2 more drives, I put them in and it rebuilt > the array using 3 of the drives with one as a spare. Then when it > failed this time, it had never started rebuilding the spare.
This situation *should* be recoverable. Contact me off-list if you'd be willing to let me log in as root and have a look. > I've noticed, though, that on one system I had originally defined the > raid using /dev/hde1, hdf1, and so on. When I tried to rebuild it > with /dev/hde, hdf, and so on, it would not rebiuld. Sure, partitions have different offsets, so the superblock could not be found. > > Have you inspected the smartctl output and checked for SMART > > errors? > > I looked at the logs. Is this a different output and where would > I find it? Are these ATA disks? if so, run smartctl -l error should be pretty empty. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "when women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues." -- honoré de balzac
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