Re: RAID & HDD failure recovery

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Laurence Vanek wrote:
I thought I knew how to do this.  Thought I was prepared.

My FC6 has a simple RAID1 setup with two ATA HDD. Three paritions on each drive (/boot, /, swap). Three RAID devices defined (i.e. hda1 & hdc1 for md0, hda2& hdc2 for md1, hda3 & hdc3 for md2). works great, can boot off either drive with the other powered down.

A week ago hda began to show disk read failures that seemed to increase by the day (smartd). Checked hda with smartctl & hdd vendor test software & sure enough drive was failing.

I removed hda from arrays (marked as failed then removed with mdadm). Shutdown & replaced with new identical drive. Plan was to boot then use:

sfdisk -d /dev/hdc | sfdisk /dev/hda

to copy partition table from remaining good drive to newly installed drive. Then add new drive back into arrays.

Surprise! boot hangs, cant find partitions on hda (of course not). drops me to simple shell.

I do not understand why I was not able to boot using the remaining good drive (hdc). I had done so prior during raid testing. machine acts like doesnt see hdc.

Perhaps it's trying to boot from the first hard disk? With the new hda not installed, hdc is the first hard disk the BIOS sees and hence it works? With the new hda installed, that's the first hard disk and since there's nothing on it, it won't boot. Perhaps you could boot the rescue CD and do the "sfdisk" operation from there?

Paul.


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