Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:03:02 +1000 (EST) | Subject | Re: RAID problems |
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On Thursday July 25, roy@karlsbakk.net wrote: > hi all > > What is there to do when the following happens: > > a 16 drive RAID fails, giving me an error message telling 4 drives have gone > dead. In fact only one has. > > How can I hack the superblock on the reminding disks to bring them "up", so > the kernel can start using the spare?
Get mdadm http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
read man page, particular in reference to --assemble with --force
Use mdadm to re-assemble the array.
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