On Tuesday February 14, krekna@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Krekna is crying out loud in the empty wilderness.... > No one there to help me? Nope :-) > > I did the folowing: > > > > dd conv=noerror if=dev/hdd1 of=/mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img > > losetup /dev/loop0 /mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img .. > > > > But it did not work out (yet). > > > > madm -E /dev/loop0 > > mdadm: No super block found on /dev/loop0 (Expected magic a92b4efc, > > got 00000000) ... > > > > - can I restore the superblock from the hdd1 disk (which is still alive) > > If mdadm -E /dev/hdd1 shows a valid superblock, and mdadm -E /dev/loop0 doesn't, then your 'dd' wasn't very successful. What is the size of /mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img ?? What is the size of /dev/hdd1? BTW, you don't need to edit mdadm.conf to try things out. Just mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1 /dev/loop0 NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
