Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 18:11:52 +0200 From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid Message-ID: <41656AC8.8080008@cs.umu.se>
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Hi Greg and list! I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. One disk crashed, and is not found during boot. It starts up and makes the usual noises, but then it stalls with a katjing, katjing and so on. It seems like either the steering electronics, or the read/write-heads mechanics, have failed. I did contact a data recovery company and they say they need both disks to restore the raid, because of that the raid initializing might be corrupted. My questions is: Do they need both disks? Isn't it enough if they make a disk image of the failed drive, and I will then be able to restore the raid data initialization in vinum by a vinum create, or something similar? Will they be able to recreate the raid data without using vinum anyway? Thank you in advance for an answer! Best regards, Paul
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