On Saturday, 8 May 2004 at 13:37:42 -0400, Lee Dilkie wrote: > Hi there, > > I've been running a 5 disk vinum array (sripted, no redundancy) for a few > months now. It's composed of 5 scsi drives of 4G each. I bought a new 120G > ide drive, with the intention of copying over all the files from the vinum > array and retiring the array (the scsi drives are really loud). > > All was fine until the file copy part. Shortly after starting, i started to > get scsi errors and the scsi system reset the drives and re-spun them up in > an attempt to provide data (this i could hear). Eventually vinum reported a > read error. My machine kinda locked up because there were swap partitions on > the scsi drives and things just went south when the OS couldn't swap > properly. > > I rebooted and fsck'd my other partitions just fine but vinum reported that > the plex was corrupt and one of the subdisks was stale (see "vinum list" > output below). I also include the output from the command to read and parse > the vium table on each drive ( as describe at > http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html ). it sure looks to me like > all the disks have the same vinum info. > > When i tried to vinum start striped.p0.s1, most of the time i would get an > error "Input/output error (5)" but a couple of times the command hung (as it > is right now).
It would be interesting to see the ps -l output for that process and any other Vinum-related processes. > Also, I reconfured my scsi (2940uw) to the lowest transfer speed, > disabled wide negotation (these are wide fast drives), disabled > disconnect and disabled synchronous transfers. Basicly, i slowed > them down as slow as they can go. I am able to successfully read > each drive (tested the first 1G of each using "dd if=/dev/da*s1e > of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1000"). That might work for a while. > There were no write operations to the vinum volume when things > crashed. I'm hoping i can get vinum up and running again so i can > copy off this data. Vinum protects you by making it difficult to access data of dubious integrity. > Question to the group. Would a vinum create using the original > configuration (i have the file) recover this situation so i could > mount and read the disk? Yes. > Is there something else to do that will help? Yes. Do: vinum -> setstate up striped.p0.s1 striped.p0 When you're happy with the data, do: vinum -> setdaemon 4 vinum -> saveconfig 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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