[ale] Raid5 lost 2 of 7 disks, can it be recovered?

[Jonathan Glass]

On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 15:35, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>   I have a machine with a 7disk raid5 (software/md).  2 of the disks
> failed durring a reboot, the machine came up marked the raid unusable
> and dead.  Both drives just came unseated (love that Hardware QA on
> assembly) and the array was never actually accessed.  Is there any way
> to "force" it up or is it completely gone?
> 
> 
> :wq!
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> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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Hardware or Software RAID?

If you have HW, you should be able to do what you mentioned...re-seat
the drives, mark them both online, and mark the RAID 5 online. 

Option 2: You have backups, right? :)

GL

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Jonathan Glass
Systems Support Specialist II
Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
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