Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel Bird
dd is a good idea. I'll dd these disks and try with the images. If you DD the entire drive, here is a howto I found for mounting the partition you want from the image. http://www.nerdparadise.com/tech/linux/diskbackup/ Thanks Scott, That was going to be my next question! ;-) D

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-20 Thread Daniel Bird
Are you sure that all the disks are in the same position that they were in when removed from the snap server? The drives are the same position , i.e hda is hda and hdb is hdb etc, but hdc and hdd were hde and hdg previously. Does that matter? If you fail with the original drives, you might

[CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-20 Thread Daniel Bird
Sorry, this is going to be a rather long post...Here's the situation; I have 4 IDE disks from an old snap server which fails to mount the raid array. We believe there is a controller error on the SNAP so we've put them in another box running CentOS 5 and can see the disks OK. hda thru hdd looks

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-20 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-20-2009 9:34 AM Daniel Bird spake the following: Are you sure that all the disks are in the same position that they were in when removed from the snap server? The drives are the same position , i.e hda is hda and hdb is hdb etc, but hdc and hdd were hde and hdg previously. Does that

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-20 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-20-2009 8:32 AM Daniel Bird spake the following: Sorry, this is going to be a rather long post...Here's the situation; I have 4 IDE disks from an old snap server which fails to mount the raid array. We believe there is a controller error on the SNAP so we've put them in another box