On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 07:54, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently had to throw out an old NAS I've been using for over 10 > years. However I rescued the 2 HDDs and got a dual-slot USB SATA > docking station for them. To my astonishment Fedora recognised them > immediately as a RAID1 array (formatted with XFS) without me doing > anything. > If the drives are 10 years old I wouldn't waste time trying to use them. Your priority should be to get the data onto newer media. > > However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. > Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be > corrected), and if so, how? Or should I do an offline copy with the > docking station's "clone" button? > > Are there any general recommendations for monitoring these beasties? I > don't want to change anything for the time being and will be using the > thing mainly for backup, but I see there is such a thing as mdmon which > isn't currently running. Should it be? I have no previous experience > with md devices. > > poc > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- George N. White III
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