Raid rebuilding

[Steve Lefevre]

When you say labeling, I take it that is something that is part of the 
formatting of the disk? I'm not sure if they are labeled or not.

Wade Pinkston wrote:

> If the hdd are labeled then you should be able to put them back in any 
> order and point your bios at the proper boot disk.  If there not 
> labeled then put them back in the order they came out and all should 
> still be just fine.  Even if you only put in md0 and md3 and boot it 
> should still work.  until you plug in there mirror matches at that 
> point the raid should just fire back up and reconcile the drives.  I 
> would plug md1-4 back in in the order they came out.  Then fire it up. 
> As long as the controller card works the raid should have no problems.
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> Steve Lefevre wrote:
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>> Hey folks -
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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