On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:16 am, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 21:58 -0400, William Warren wrote: > > I am curious about something. I have a friend that made a software raid > > 1 partition across a 250 gig 7200 rpm drive and an 80 gig 7200 rpm hard > > disk drive. he shut the system down normally to clean it out and when > > it came back up he gets the following: > > a superblock on /dev/md0 failed > > > > would mdadm --assemble --force fix it or lead to more damage? > > ---- > don't know...RAID 1 (mirror) or RAID 0 (stripe) ? If it's RAID 0, he's possibly doomed. If RAID 1, there's still hope. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 16:21:08 up 9:00, 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org