Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-21-2009 1:18 AM Daniel Bird spake the following: >>> dd is a good idea. I'll dd these disks and try with the images. >>> >>> >> If you DD the entire drive, here is a howto I found for mounting the >> partition >> you want from the image. >> >> http://www.nerdparadise.com/tech/linux/diskb

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel Bird
>> dd is a good idea. I'll dd these disks and try with the images. >> >> > > If you DD the entire drive, here is a howto I found for mounting the partition > you want from the image. > > http://www.nerdparadise.com/tech/linux/diskbackup/ Thanks Scott, That was going to be my next question! ;-

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-20 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-20-2009 9:34 AM Daniel Bird spake the following: >> Are you sure that all the disks are in the same position that they were in >> when removed from the snap server? > The drives are the same position , i.e hda is hda and hdb is hdb etc, > but hdc and hdd were hde and hdg previously. Does that

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-20 Thread Daniel Bird
> Are you sure that all the disks are in the same position that they were in > when removed from the snap server? The drives are the same position , i.e hda is hda and hdb is hdb etc, but hdc and hdd were hde and hdg previously. Does that matter? > If you fail with the original drives, you might

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-20 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-20-2009 8:32 AM Daniel Bird spake the following: > Sorry, this is going to be a rather long post...Here's the situation; I > have 4 IDE disks from an old snap server which fails to mount the raid > array. We believe there is a controller error on the SNAP so we've put > them in another box run