The heart of my system is an Abit KT7A-RAID motherboard, it has 2 additional IDE headers. I have 4 PCI RocketRaid 100 IDE controllers attached. Each of those controllers has 2 IDE headers. Attached to all those IDE headers are the following: 2x 60GB Maxtor 4x 120GB WD 5x 120GB Seagate For almost a year, I've had RedHat 7.2 running a RAID-5 array of 9x 120GB drives. "/" is located on the RAID array and /boot is on one of the 60GB Maxtors. One day, after about 25 days uptime, the system stopped responding to network requests and though I could still move the mouse around, the whole system was essentially frozen. So, I rebooted. When I did, it spewed some stuff indicating that the RAID array was damaged and that it would attempt a recovery. HDD indicator LEDs flashed for half a day. When I came back, the screen was blank and the HDD activity LED was stuck on. I waited a whole day before I decided to reboot it again. Similar results: attempt recovery, disk activity, then freeze. After the third or fourth attempt at this, it now boots up with a kernel panic. I can't read all the error messages, but right after loading the IDE controller drivers and right before it kernel panics, it spews out a listing of all the drives and then says that the md0 array cannot be loaded. What should I do at this point? I have most of my data backed up, but I hate to have to reconfigure a new server from scratch. Thanks, Kent Wang IC2 Institute - 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
