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rpmurray · 10-07-2006, 04:23 PM

Latest update for anyone interested.

I'd started backing up the data earlier but had not yet completed it. Work kept getting in the way. But I did have all the most important parts backed up.

Came in this morning and Drive 4 had a solid amber light and none of the other drives had any activity. I also couldn't sign onto it. So I shut it down, replaced the memory with the larger size (256MB) that I'd been meaning to do when I could try rebuilding the RAID again, and started it back up. Log indicates that it had a panic a little after 2 am.

It keeps getting just a bit into the disk check and then throws up a FSCK 27 error message, then it tries to pick up the new spare drive and rebuild the RAID and gets through 2% before it dies. I've got it doing the disk check to repair severe errors and it has so far (30 minutes in) found a few bad blocks and inodes. My guess is Drive 4 is in the process of dying on me and the RAID is probably toast, since it was running on three drives in degraded mode. Should a miracle occur, it'll probably take another four and a half hours to complete the disk check. At least so far it's gotten a bit further along that it has been with just the normal disk check.

10-07-2006, 04:23 PM	#35
rpmurray Cooling Savant Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Tennessee Posts: 157	Re: Dell 705N Cracked RAID Latest update for anyone interested. I'd started backing up the data earlier but had not yet completed it. Work kept getting in the way. But I did have all the most important parts backed up. Came in this morning and Drive 4 had a solid amber light and none of the other drives had any activity. I also couldn't sign onto it. So I shut it down, replaced the memory with the larger size (256MB) that I'd been meaning to do when I could try rebuilding the RAID again, and started it back up. Log indicates that it had a panic a little after 2 am. It keeps getting just a bit into the disk check and then throws up a FSCK 27 error message, then it tries to pick up the new spare drive and rebuild the RAID and gets through 2% before it dies. I've got it doing the disk check to repair severe errors and it has so far (30 minutes in) found a few bad blocks and inodes. My guess is Drive 4 is in the process of dying on me and the RAID is probably toast, since it was running on three drives in degraded mode. Should a miracle occur, it'll probably take another four and a half hours to complete the disk check. At least so far it's gotten a bit further along that it has been with just the normal disk check.