Re: *** IT'S FIXED ***
From: John7 (nosp_at_mm.com)
Date: 05/17/04
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Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:58:00 +0200
I was able to fix the problem.
Thanx guys for all your support!
Backupped RAID1 disks separately to another system.
Data on Primairy RAID1 disk appeared damaged.
Secundairy RAID1 disk appeared OK.
Odd, they were different, probable due to switching off
at an inappropriate moment.
Surface check both disks : OK. Drive fittness checks : OK.
I disabled mirroring relation ship between drives.
Made old secundairy disk (was OK) the new primary.
Made old (bad) primary the new secundairy disk and
rebuild the array. System was fine again.
As a precaution I updated the raid drivers and
reminded friend again about CTRL-ALT-DEL.
After checking he found no errors so far (1.5 wk ago).
Cheers,
John7
"Clint Sharp" <clint@clintsmc.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bsZ42oQoMLmAFw74@clintsmc.demon.co.uk...
> In message <c792si$93v$1@news1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>, John7 <nosp@mm.com>
> writes
> >Last backup was 9 days ago.
> Stupid. Almost makes you want to lose the data to teach him a lesson.
> > As a LAST resort I will restore
> >the tape to the all-in-one partition. He will lose 9 days of work.
> >Problem is the tape drive mfg went bankrupt, so NO support.
> Not necessarily a problem, but he's going to have one hell of a time
> replacing his tapes.
> >And ... disk has to be wipped first to install win2K from fresh,
> >then restore tape on top of it.
> Why? Get a new drive and restore to that.
> > If it succeeds fine but if it fails he
> >looses all data!
> See above.
> > I may need to break the mirrored array
> >(2 x 40GB in RAID 1) to backup data first.
> So do it!
> > Another thing I
> >need to figure out.
> Errm, disconnect one drive? The whole point of a mirror set is that one
> drive can disappear and the system carries on until you replace the
> failed drive.
> > No easy path either.
> First thing, stop messing around with critical data. One wrong move and
> it's gone.
> Remove the 'RAID' controller and drives, stop messing about with it
> until you are in a position to do so safely.
>
> Build a fresh W2k install (Pro or Server) on a new drive using the
> motherboard controller, make sure it all works.
>
> Re-install the 'RAID' controller with one disk from the mirror set, make
> sure the system boots from the newly built drive (you may need to change
> the BIOS settings) and install the drivers if asked to.
>
> You should then be able to see the drive and recover the data to some
> kind of reliable medium (make more than one copy and verify them to be
> certain).
>
> Pray the stop error you see isn't a 'RAID' controller hardware error or
> the data format used by the 'RAID' isn't proprietary.
>
> Learn lessons from this.
>
> 1. Regular backups prevent your arse from falling out.
>
> 2. Don't bugger around with things you don't understand if it's business
> critical, learn on non critical stuff first or find a professional.
>
> 3. Don't rely on toy hardware for business critical stuff, I see nothing
> in your hardware list that I would let near a server, let alone inside
> one. It's often cheaper to buy a name brand server you can get support
> on than find out the hard way you can't get spares or support for
> something you need running today.
>
>
> >
> >>
> >> Simon Elliott
> >
> >
>
> --
> Clint Sharp
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