Thanks a lot, mr. m!
still no one seems to know what to do with a bad superblock on a drive...
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ai
http://sefiroth.org
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, m. allan noah wrote:
> anton, run this command as root:
>
> dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null count=100 bs=1k
>
> this will dump some data out of your scsi disk, and into /dev/null check the
> light :)
>
> if you miss it, increase the count.
>
> allan
>
> Anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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> > So I have a total of 7 disks in the system, 6 of which are in the RAID and
> > I need to know that if I want to swap sdb1, which physical disk do I
> > replace... I know that there is a utility for windows which makes the
> > drive's LED flash.
> >
> > I am still looking for a resolution to the
> >
> > md: superblock update time inconsistency -- using the most recent one
> > freshest: sdg1
> > md: kicking non-fresh sdb1 from array!
> > unbind<sdb1,5>
> > export_rdev(sdb1)
> >
> > problem. Thanks.
> > ------
> > ai
> > http://sefiroth.org
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 5:00 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Re: problem with superblock
> > > >
> > > > ## Betreff : problem with superblock
> > > > ## Ersteller: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anton)
> > > >
> > > > a> And is how do you map
> > > > a> names like sdb1 to the physical disk?
> > > > It is the first disk on the second SCSI-Controller.
> > >
> > > Uhm, no, it's not. The stock Linux kernel maps SCSI drives in the order
> > > that it finds them. The first SCSI disk is /dev/sda, the second is
> > > /dev/sdb, the third, /dev/sdc, and so on. /dev/sdb1 is the first
> partition
> > > on the second SCSI drive. If you add another SCSI disk that the kernel
> > > finds earlier, then that disk will no longer be /dev/sdb, but some other
> > > disk. Persistent superblocks make sure that your RAID arrays can start up
> > > even when you change the number of SCSI disks in your system.
> > > Grego
> > >
> >
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