Mark Pryor wrote: > --- Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com> wrote: > > >> Sorry for posting this twice, didn't look like it >> made it before... >> >> Russ >> >> Ruslan Sivak wrote: >> >>> I had a raid5 on an onboard Intel ICH9R chip under >>> >> windows. Windows >> >>> crashed, as it often does, and the array became >>> >> degraded. At some >> >>> point during the rebuild, I was doing some >>> >> hardware maintanence and >> >>> unplugged one of the drives, and forgot to plug it >>> >> back in. >> >>> When I booted up, the array came back as failed. >>> >> I turned off the PC, >> >>> plugged the drive back in and powered it back on, >>> >> but the array stayed >> >>> as failed. >>> Is there a way to recover the data? I heard >>> >> dmraid supports ich9r >> >>> raid volumes, but I keep getting an error saying >>> >> unsupported map state >> >>> 2. I found out that dmraid doesnt' support raid 5 >>> >> (at least not on a >> >>> ICH9R chip). I heard about this patch: >>> http://people.redhat.com/heinzm/sw/dm/dm-raid45/, >>> >> but I'm not sure how >> >>> to apply it to a linux live cd. Does anyone have >>> >> any idea? >> >>> Is there maybe a way to reset the metadata to make >>> >> the intel >> >>> controller boot the array anyway? >>> > > One of the best live Linux CD's out there is the FC8 > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/8/Live/ > > uses the 2.6.23 kernel. Knoppix 5.1 is Jan07 and > kernel 2.6.19 > > BTW, I hear a lot of negative things about dmraid and > fakeraid. I have an FC5 desktop box dual booting WinXP > and FC5 on fakeraid/Raid0 thats been perfect for over > 3 years. That includes a kernel upgrade in FC5, which > required me to run mkinitrd (since it froze during > boot) to get it working. > > Do you think that live cd will have raid5 support for dmraid, or will I have to use that patch? Russ