From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 9:45:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9F5A37B405 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:45:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.vermoe.dk (mx3.w4b.dk [130.227.212.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F03E43FBF for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:45:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from t@garbage.dk) Received: from garbage.dk ([130.227.212.251]) by mx1.vermoe.dk with esmtp; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 18:45:28 +0100 Received: from 80.196.142.161 (SquirrelMail authenticated user t@garbage.dk) by 130.227.212.251 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:48:50 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <32992.80.196.142.161.1047059330.squirrel@130.227.212.251> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:48:50 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Vinum raid0 disk dies From: "Thomas von Hassel" To: dnelson@allantgroup.com In-Reply-To: <20030307173813.GB6691@dan.emsphone.com> References: <32834.80.196.142.161.1047058043.squirrel@130.227.212.251> <20030307173813.GB6691@dan.emsphone.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to 7bit by courier 0.39 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In the last episode (Mar 07), Thomas von Hassel said: >> So if one of your disks in a vinum raid'0 dies there is absolutly >> nothing you can do right ? ...just checking before i zero the other >> drives .. > > Raid 0 means Zero Redundancy :) > > If the disk is truly gone, the entire volume is unuseable. If a cable > came loose or something but the disk is still okay, you can simply force > the drive back up manually and be on your way. > the drive is physically dead, i have tried everything i could think of, differet cables, difrent jumper settings, even tried to put in a spare machine to see if it woudl show up there, nada ... and yes raid0 is zero redundancy and i have backup's in place for most of the critical data. Someone sugested getting a drive of the same model and swaping the print to see if the drive was ok otherwise but i dont know if it's worth the effort. (note, this is a 120GB IBM drive, not 6 months old ...grrr) /thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message