> > So I rebooted, and ran the manufacturer's disk test, sure enough > > it's headed south. Once I've got a replacement drive, will I be able to > > get the data on my raid partition back? I don't think I've ever had a > > failure happen on a RAID1 array during resync. Once on RAID5, and that > > was a disaster.... > > You shouldn't have any problems getting your data back. Indeed you > should be able to get it even before the new drives arrive, that is > what RAID is about. Ok, I wasn't sure if the second failure during reconstruction was disastrous for RAID1. Looks like it's not - my boss lent me a disk to use until my RMA'ed Deathstar comes in, and as soon as I hot added a new partition, reconstruction started with all my data. Somedays when the simple things go right it's enough to make your day ::-) > My (biased) guess is that the machine locked up because the IDE driver > was not coping elegantly with the drive failure. > I think it would be nice if the raid system could tell the device "if > you get an error, don't retry too hard, I'm happy to cope". Hardly a biased opinion. I've seen more than my share of IDE disk failures at work - it's always the IDE driver that falls over first. Ross Vandegrift ross@willow.seitz.com - 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
