Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 06:29:20 +0100 From: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> To: "Ethan Akins" <ethanakins@hotmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mountroot> Please Help / URGENT.. Message-ID: <200212230529.GBN5TTM39590@asarian-host.net> References: <F98o63Oros1kEHDKbd80001af4c@hotmail.com> <20021223015354.GD42622@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ethan Akins" <ethanakins@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:23 AM Subject: mountroot> Please Help / URGENT.. > Operating System / Configuration: > > FreeBSD 4.6 with RAID 1 ( Mirrored ) > > Situation: > > I have 2 active drives running in the same machine at all times. In > addition, I have 1 extra drive that sits on the shelf with a copy of the > previous backup that I swap out with one of the other active drives every > week. When I swap out the drive from the shelf with one of the drives in > the machine upon booting it says array failure so I press Ctrl + F and > "re-create" the array. Lemme guess, you're using a FastTrack RAID controller? I use the exact same method of backing up as you do (on my ASUS A7V333), down to the same rotation scheme even. :) > The remaining drive that I leave on the shelf for additional backup will > NOT boot up as a single drive to get data off that I need very badly... How odd. On my ASUS A7V333 board I can yank out either of the two disks, and even though the BIOS complains a bit about my array being in a "critical" state, it will still boot, of course. I say "of course", for that is the whole point of having a RAID 1, right? That if one of the drives fails, you can continue with the other. Naturally, FreeBSD 4.7R still notices the drive missing from the array, but unless you checked the logs, you would not know it. > Would anyone able to help me out with this situation ? Have you tried physically removing (disconnecting) the first drive? That may help. It could be a FreeBSD issue (though I doubt it; it is hard to imagine the difference between 4.6 and 4.7 would be this major). I have heard people say here that FreeBSD could not possibly mount the single drive partitions as they are part of an array. Well, I cannot speak for others, but there have been several occassions where I had to do exactly what you want: boot from the backup disk to retrieve data; and, like I said, unless I checked the logs, FreeBSD ran just as it always does: smoothly. :) - Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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