On Tuesday, 16 March 2004 at 17:25:26 +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 07:13:25PM +0800, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 16 March 2004 at 2:00:00 +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: >>> I had a failed disk in my RAID-0 Vinum array. This was a physical disk >>> problem and in an attempt to recover as much data as possible I dd'ed it >>> to another disk (dd if=ad3 of=ad1 bs=8192 conv=noerror). >> >> This may or may not work, depending on details you haven't reported. > > I can't think of anything else. Originally I ran dd without the > conv=noerror and it stopped at around 25GB (the disk is a 100GB). The > destination disk is 123GB but to my knowledge that is acceptable for dd. > > During the process a number (maybe eight to ten) I/O errors were > reported.
But not to me. You've put a lot of effort into this message, but unfortunately it doesn't contain much of what I need to know. That's why I gave you the URL below. >> A good start would be to read the documentation at >> http://www.vinumvm.org/. > > Unresolved bugs, 27 Feb 2000. -- this doesn't seem to have applied. > When I started vinum (I previously ran dumpconfig) with create -f > myconfig my data plex (comprised 2*120GB and the replaced 100GB) was > listed as up. I was really thinking of "What to do if you have problems with Vinum" at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. > No errors appear in any of the files in /var/log (I checked them > all, just in case). Above you say: > During the process a number (maybe eight to ten) I/O errors were > reported. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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