more software RAID...
Recall my problem:
Previously had a working SW RAID 5. In constisted of 5 250GB IDE drives. They are sitting in a dual 1Ghz PIII box with an extra two IDE cards, adding four ide channels to the usual two on the MB.
A home inspector left the heat on, raising the temp inthe house to just over 100 degrees. I was having problems with IRQ9, and isolated it to a failed/failing boot drive. I reformatted the boot drive, but had problems getting the RAID to be recognized (see post here). The concensus seemed to be that the power supply got smoked.
I've replace the powersupply, and it seems to be running 'better' (I haven't checked what happens when I pull the power to one of the five RAID drives yet). The machine seems to be 'stuck' at this point in the boot process (I've copied it by hand, and part are paraphrased, as I don't have an internet connection any more as we are in the process of moving):
MD: RAID array is not clean - starting background reconstruction
RAID5 measuring:
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RAID 5 conf printout:
rd:5 wd:5 d:0
disk1, 0:1, dev hdc1
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disk4, 0:1, dev hdi1
md: auto run done
md synching RAID array md0
md: min guaranteed reconstructgion speed 1000kb/sec/disk
md: using max aidle IO bandwith (but not more than 200000kb/sec for reconstruction)
md: using 128K window over a total of 244197840 blocks.
At first it was obviously doing something. I have no idea what the HD is doing as I think I screwed up wiring the HD LED correctly when I built the box. Now I'm not so sure...
My question is this:
how long should I wait?
If it's really doing a reconstruction, the manual says to 'go get a pizza'... but it was written years ago, and I don't think most people were trying to reconstruck 1TB RAID5 drives...
Any thoughts?
Comments?
Other things to try?
Previously had a working SW RAID 5. In constisted of 5 250GB IDE drives. They are sitting in a dual 1Ghz PIII box with an extra two IDE cards, adding four ide channels to the usual two on the MB.
A home inspector left the heat on, raising the temp inthe house to just over 100 degrees. I was having problems with IRQ9, and isolated it to a failed/failing boot drive. I reformatted the boot drive, but had problems getting the RAID to be recognized (see post here). The concensus seemed to be that the power supply got smoked.
I've replace the powersupply, and it seems to be running 'better' (I haven't checked what happens when I pull the power to one of the five RAID drives yet). The machine seems to be 'stuck' at this point in the boot process (I've copied it by hand, and part are paraphrased, as I don't have an internet connection any more as we are in the process of moving):
MD: RAID array is not clean - starting background reconstruction
RAID5 measuring:
-
-
-
RAID 5 conf printout:
rd:5 wd:5 d:0
disk1, 0:1, dev hdc1
-
-
-
disk4, 0:1, dev hdi1
md: auto run done
md synching RAID array md0
md: min guaranteed reconstructgion speed 1000kb/sec/disk
md: using max aidle IO bandwith (but not more than 200000kb/sec for reconstruction)
md: using 128K window over a total of 244197840 blocks.
At first it was obviously doing something. I have no idea what the HD is doing as I think I screwed up wiring the HD LED correctly when I built the box. Now I'm not so sure...
My question is this:
how long should I wait?
If it's really doing a reconstruction, the manual says to 'go get a pizza'... but it was written years ago, and I don't think most people were trying to reconstruck 1TB RAID5 drives...
Any thoughts?
Comments?
Other things to try?
