[PLUG] Help please, linux md raid broken

Steven Raymond madpacket at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 8 15:00:03 UTC 2004


>From: Chris Jantzen <chris at maybe.net>
>Brief, perhaps useless, kibitzing: Before doing anything, figure out
>what /proc/mdstat says regarding the volume. If it thinks one of the
>drives is offline, you should try rebuilding the raid superblock (not
>the ext3 superblock) -- use "mdadm -A --force" to try to force raid
>reassembly. (Or whatever it is with raidtools.) If this doesn't work,

Am not sure I'm in the right place, but I booted off the RH9 disc 1, did 
linux rescue and issued cat /proc/mdstat:

Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid5]
read_ahead 1024 sectors
unused devices: <none>

Is that what you were directing me towards?  If so, is it saying the drives 
are online?

Am getting pretty nervous.  I have no experience with the raidtools nor 
repairing a raid volume.  Can anyone recommend a professional I can hire to 
help restore my data?

Thanks again

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