On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:46:08PM -0800, whollygoat@letterboxes.org wrote: > > On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:45:56 +0000, "John Robinson" > <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk> said: > > On 09/01/2009 02:41, whollygoat@letterboxes.org wrote: [snip] > > But, this has all become moot anyway. When I put the original, smaller > drives back in, hoping to do the grow op overagain, I was faced with a > similar problem assembling the array, so I'm guessing the problem > caused by something other than the grow. I put the larger drives in, > zeroed them, and am in the process of recreating the array and > file systems to be populated from backups. just fell into same boat, 3 drives in a 10 drive raid6 died at the same time on me, and I was unable to recreate the raid6 :( so back to the backup machine :) to answer your question about the smaller disks, there is an option with create that says the drives are okay and not to prep them --assume-clean so you can recreate the array without over writing stuff > > Thanks for the input. > > goat > -- > > whollygoat@letterboxes.org > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an > unladen european swallow > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany" - George W. Bush 05/05/2006 Washington, DC
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