Re: Can't recover raid5 & 1 disk failure - Could not import [dev 21:01]!

2000-04-12 Thread Darren Nickerson
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar wrote: Ingo> well, it was boot-time 'very early' autostarting, but not Ingo> RAID-autostarting in the classic sense. Understood. Ingo> I think i'll fix raidstart to simply iterate through all available Ingo> partitions, until one is star

Re: Can't recover raid5 & 1 disk failure - Could not import [dev 21:01]!

2000-04-12 Thread Darren Nickerson
Thanks for the reply Ingo! Great work you're doing, thanks. > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar wrote: Ingo> this happens because raidstart looks at the first entry in /etc/raidtab Ingo> to start up an array. If that entry is damaged, it does not cycle Ingo> through the other

Can't recover raid5 & 1 disk failure - Could not import [dev 21:01]!

2000-04-11 Thread Darren Nickerson
Folks, My array decided to show me what was wrong with it (see my posts earlier today). It was a comprehensive head crash which was slow coming on but which eventually took the disk totally out of action. The Promise card does not even see it . . . :-( So no problem, I have 3 of the four left,