RE: [CentOS] Replacing failed software RAID drive

2007-10-10 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Les Mikesell Sent: October 10, 2007 16:37 > > Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > From: Les Mikesell > >> Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > >>> From: Les Mikesell Sent: October 7, 2007 18:53 > >>> > Then reinstall grub on the drive. > >>> Now I have some questions: > >>> > >>> 1. Since the /boot par

Re: [CentOS] Replacing failed software RAID drive

2007-10-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Les Mikesell Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Les Mikesell Sent: October 7, 2007 18:53 Then reinstall grub on the drive. Now I have some questions: 1. Since the /boot partition was mirrored and will be restored on the new sda drive I do not really want to d

RE: [CentOS] Replacing failed software RAID drive

2007-10-10 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Les Mikesell > Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > From: Les Mikesell Sent: October 7, 2007 18:53 > > > >> Then reinstall grub on the drive. > > > > Now I have some questions: > > > > 1. Since the /boot partition was mirrored and will be restored on the > >new sda drive I do not really want to

Re: [CentOS] Replacing failed software RAID drive

2007-10-09 Thread Les Mikesell
Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Les Mikesell Sent: October 7, 2007 18:53 OK, you just have to replace the drive, fdisk matching partitions on it ("fdisk -l /dev/sde" will show the sizes you need), then use mdadm --add /dev/md? /dev/sda? for each one to add the missing partition back. I have b

Re: [CentOS] Replacing failed software RAID drive

2007-10-09 Thread Clint Dilks
Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Les Mikesell Sent: October 7, 2007 18:53 OK, you just have to replace the drive, fdisk matching partitions on it ("fdisk -l /dev/sde" will show the sizes you need), then use mdadm --add /dev/md? /dev/sda? for each one to add the missing partition back.

RE: [CentOS] Replacing failed software RAID drive

2007-10-09 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Les Mikesell Sent: October 7, 2007 18:53 > > OK, you just have to replace the drive, fdisk matching partitions on it > ("fdisk -l /dev/sde" will show the sizes you need), then use > mdadm --add /dev/md? /dev/sda? > for each one to add the missing partition back. I have been able to review

Re: [CentOS] Replacing failed software RAID drive

2007-10-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: Normally with software mirroring you would mirror partitions, not drives. What does "cat /proc/mdstat" say about them? You are correct. I keep falling back to thinking the "MegaRAID" way where I have the drives mirrored at the controller level and then partitioned at

RE: [CentOS] Replacing failed software RAID drive

2007-10-07 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Les Mikesell Sent: October 7, 2007 16:57 > Hi Les. Thanks for your response. > Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > > > I now find myself in the situation where I have a failed drive on a > > non-MegaRAID controller, specifically an Adaptec 29160 SCSI > > controller. > > The system is an Acer G7

Re: [CentOS] Replacing failed software RAID drive

2007-10-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: I now find myself in the situation where I have a failed drive on a non-MegaRAID controller, specifically an Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller. The system is an Acer G700 with 8 internal hot-swappable SCSI drives arranged in two banks of 4 drives. Each bank is connected to

[CentOS] Replacing failed software RAID drive

2007-10-07 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
CentOS release 4.5 Hi All: First of all I will admit to being spoiled by my MegaRAID SCSI RAID controllers. When a drive fails on one of them I just replace the drive and carry on with out having to do anything else. I now find myself in the situation where I have a failed drive on a non-MegaRAI