Nathanial Byrnes wrote: > Yes, I did not have the funding nor approval to purchase more hardware > when I set it up (read wife). Once it was working... the rest is > history. > > OK, so if you have a pair of IDE disks, jumpered as Master and slave, and if one fails: If Master failed, re-jumper remaining disk on pair on same cable as Master, no slave present If Slave failed, re-jumper remaining disk on pair on same cable as Master, no slave present. Then you will have the remaining disk working normally, at least. When you can afford it I suggest buying a controller with enough ports to support the number of drives you have, with no Master/Slave pairing. Good luck ! And to the software guys trying to help: We need to start with the (obvious) hardware problem, before we advise on how to recover data from a borked system.. Once he has the jumpering on the drives sorted out, the drive that went missing will be back again.. -- Regards, Maurice - 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
