Raid rebuilding

Steve Lefevre lefevre.10 at osu.edu
Fri Jun 18 12:00:07 EDT 2004


Hey folks -

Well, it finally happened. The machine housing my beautiful software 
RAID 5 no longer recognizes the keyboard. I can't get the machine to 
boot, since it halts on the keyboard error.

There are four drives in the machine. The first, on the first IDE 
channel, is the boot drive, which holds the RH boot drive and the rest 
of the system. The second IDE channel on the mobo holds the first raid 
drive, an 80 GB drive. There is an IDE controller card with two 
channels, each holding one 80 GB drive on the raid.

What is my best hope for recovery? My thought is that I can swap out the 
motherboard, leave the drive ordering the same, and if Tux truly loves 
me, I will get my raid back.

Steve Lefevre


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