Greetings,
I have an Ateonix NASAS 2040 NAS device with a RAID5 array composed of 4
300GB Maxtor IDE disks. The NASAS 2040 is a std PC motherboard with a
PCI 'disk on flash' module which contains a linux OS that runs the
system. Therefore the RAID array is /dev/hda1, /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdc1,
/dev/hdd1. In my case, the flash based OS crashed due to a power glitch
while the system was recovering from a previous power glitch (single
point of failure was pretty easy to hit unfortunately).
Seeing as I know the NAS uses Linux, I figured perhaps I could use
another linux system to mount the array on, intact. I have taken 1 of
the drives, installed it as hdc in a Linux FC1 system and examined it
with fdisk:
[root@masterbackend root]# fdisk /dev/hdc
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 36473.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdc: 300.0 GB, 300001443840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36473 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 36217 290913052 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdc2 36218 36281 514080 83 Linux
/dev/hdc3 36282 36473 1542240 83 Linux
Command (m for help):q
[root@masterbackend root]#
Question: What would the hdc2 and hdc3 partitions be? I then examined
it using mdadm:
used 'mdadm --examine /dev/hdc1':
[root@masterbackend root]# mdadm --examine /dev/hdc1
/dev/hdc1:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 00.90.00
UUID : 979016d8:1ce73ff7:3251d40a:a184400c
Creation Time : Sat Sep 13 21:40:22 2003
Raid Level : raid5
Device Size : 290912960 (277.44 GiB 297.89 GB)
Raid Devices : 4
Total Devices : 4
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Wed May 26 16:16:36 2004
State : dirty, no-errors
Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 4
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : c2e94cf6 - correct
Events : 0.24
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 32K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 0 3 1 0 active sync /dev/hda1
0 0 3 1 0 active sync /dev/hda1
1 1 3 65 1 active sync /dev/hdb1
2 2 22 1 2 active sync /dev/hdc1
3 3 22 65 3 active sync /dev/hdd1
[root@masterbackend root]#
Luckily the superblock seems ligit, so I think I can safely mount it.
My question is that, not being very familiar with Linux raid or mdadm,
I'm wondering if I can mount the array on my Linux system when the
devices are other than described above (they would likely be /dev/hdc1,
/dev/hdd1, etc as my boot/root drives use hda/hdb). Additionally, how
should I go about mounting this array in a way that if anything doesn't
work right, it doesn't trash the array. I'm a little paranoid that I
may do something wrong and the raidutils will start reconstructing or
otherwise altering the information on the array.
Thanks for any help. I've read over the Linux RAID FAQ and looked
through the man pages for mdadm, but I'm pretty paranoid about loosing
the data and want to consult the experts here.
Thanks for any help,
Tim
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