On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:28:13PM -0700, Titus Winters wrote: > Please help my poor file server: > > I've got 4 scsi drives on two controllers running RAID-5 in software. > > So as near as I can tell I've got one drive that failed and cut off > communications with the other disk on the SCSI controller (or something) > which made that second drive become not-fresh before the kernel panicked. > > dmseg says that one is not-fresh, and the other is faulty. How do I > proceed without data loss? I've tried raidhotadd to bring up the > not-fresh drive, but the raid device can't start up and thus I can't > hot add it. Section 6.1 in the Software RAID HOWTO: http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO-6.html#ss6.1 -- ................................................................ : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : :.........................: putrid forms of man : : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html