Question - Can I Build Raid Array with Missing Disk?

1998-11-20 Thread Richard A. Bollinger
I have a 2.0.35 system patched with raid0145-19981110-2.0.35, using raidtools-19981105-0.90, with drives sda and sdb. I'd like to add sdc and sdd and build a RAID-5 array from sdb, sdc and sdd; but not lose the data currently on sdb. My thought was to build a "degraded" RAID-5 array with sdc and

ckraid gone, how to recover from disk error?

1998-11-20 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, the man pages in the raidtools 0.90 suite says that ckraid is obsolete now. And there is no "mkraid --only-superblock" any more. Is there any documentation about error recovery from RAID 1 or 5 that fits to the current raidtool version? (apart from the source code :-) Thanks, Thomas