Re: Panic...

Anton Bakken wrote:
> Are you using mdadm, and are you very sure it's just a controller or
> an ide ribbon problem? If those two drives are fine then you should be
> able to force the drives back in. You will have to do an
>
> mdadm --assemble /dev/mdX --force <drive1> <drive2> <drive3> <drive4>
>
> However if you have a bad block or there was a write error making one
> or both of those drives go down you could have some serious problems.
> If you have time and extra drives I would dd the known good drives to
> some spares, and then bring it back in degraded mode with.
>
> mdadm --assembe /dev/mdX --force <drive1> <drive2> <drive3> missing
>
> this would give you some chance to play around.

Thank you. That pretty much confirms my planned course of action.

use dd_rescue to copy each of the failed drives to a new drive.
rebuild with --assemble ... --force with only the first three drives.
(drives 3 and 4 failed)
If that completely fails, I can try with 1, 2, and 4.

After that hari-cari is my next option.

gotta go get some drives.

F*ckin' Maxtors. I should have known better.

ttyl
srw
Received on Mon Jun 4 16:28:48 2007