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Date:      Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:22:24 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
Cc:        ed@80386.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
Subject:   Re: URGENT: Need help rebuilding iir RAID5 array with failed drive
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On 29Jun, 2008, at 5:11 , Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>
>> I hate to bring this to you, but you will not have an intact =20
>> filesystem when
>> the rebuild is done, you have no parity data to rebuild from, just =20=

>> as the
>> docs states.
>>
>> -S=F8ren
>
> Just as you predicted, the disk(s) are unreadable still, even after
> the rebuild (and I hope to hell that it didn't destroy/disturb any
> data on the surviving members).
>
> I may just have to get it sent off for recovery (after I dd the
> remaining members because there's still some usable data there --
> bloody 2.7TB ... grr) -- apart from that I don't think I have a
> choice.

You wont get anything from that except a huge bill for nothing.

> Oh, where's this "document" of which you speak all the time? I don't
> see anything about parity support not being available in either the
> geom or iir manpage, or the iir sourcecode. If someone needs a helping
> hand inserting that logic into the kernel, I'll gladly assist so
> others don't follow my footsteps and fsck up their data.
>

Would you please try to read what I write to you ?

You still insist in mixing up ATA and IIR, it is two distinct drivers =20=

for different HW and with very different properties.

For ATA docs just use "man ata" and it will show you the way.
Shortcut to the raid part is  "man ataraid".

> For once I wish I had been running Linux or Windows (at least) :(...

Oooohhh, that one is soooo tempting..... 8^)

-S=F8ren









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