Re: RAID problems

Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:03:02 +1000 (EST)

On Thursday July 25, roy@karlsbakk.net wrote:
> hi all
>
> What is there to do when the following happens:
>
> a 16 drive RAID fails, giving me an error message telling 4 drives have gone
> dead. In fact only one has.
>
> How can I hack the superblock on the reminding disks to bring them "up", so
> the kernel can start using the spare?

Get mdadm
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/

read man page, particular in reference to --assemble with --force

Use mdadm to re-assemble the array.

NeilBrown
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/