On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 14:01 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +0000, Stroller wrote: > > On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > ... > > > Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up > > > further?
OK, I've randomly mounted partitions, and now I'm stuck because I don't know what the original /etc/raidtab was. /proc/mdstat just says: Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] unused devices: <none> which looks like nothing is used in any RAID set. Autodetect seems not to be working, perhaps because the ID wasn't set to 0xFD or 253. Each drive has identical partitions: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 2 16041+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 3 70 546210 83 Linux /dev/hda3 71 138 546210 5 Extended /dev/hda4 139 9682 76656636 83 Linux /dev/hda5 71 104 273104+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 105 138 273104+ 83 Linux and /dev/hd[aceg]1 is "/boot" on each one. all the other /dev/hd[aceg][2-6] mount says: mount: unknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member obviously this is the raid. But how do I get to it? All "/boot"s mount ok and are readable with some kernel files and stuff, however /dev/hdc1 give some errors: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=585, sector=575 hdc: possibly failed opcode: 0x25 end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 575 __ratelimit: 22 callbacks suppressed Buffer I/O error on device hdc1, logical block 528 Buffer I/O error on device hdc1, logical block 529 Buffer I/O error on device hdc1, logical block 530 Buffer I/O error on device hdc1, logical block 531 Buffer I/O error on device hdc1, logical block 532 Buffer I/O error on device hdc1, logical block 533 Buffer I/O error on device hdc1, logical block 534 Buffer I/O error on device hdc1, logical block 535 Buffer I/O error on device hdc1, logical block 536 Buffer I/O error on device hdc1, logical block 537 so it looks like there's some problems with hdc. Are there any disk hardware testing tools on the gentoo minimal live cd? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> It's simply unbelievable how much energy and creativity people have invested into creating contradictory, bogus and stupid licenses... --- Sven Rudolph about licences in debian/non-free.