What Are You Doing Right Now
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Good evening
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Packing up to install two replacement computers. Two HDDs failed on Friday.
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Trying to recover any data off of a failed RAID 1 (2-Drive laCie) . . . fun . . .
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@DustinB3403 Did the whole RAID 1 fail, or just one of the drives?
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Well we got a replacement drive, as Drive 2 was marked as bad, and let it "run a resilver" for a very long time. 2 days... at which point the system went into a full failed state.
So much fun.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Well we got a replacement drive, as Drive 2 was marked as bad, and let it "run a resilver" for a very long time. 2 days... at which point the system went into a full failed state.
So much fun.
Good to see that you are amused for the day
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10:00 PM but I'm bit sleepy Lols
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Yeah. . .
Neither the "good" drive nor the one originally marked as bad will mount. So much for being SAFE.
Boss wants to give it a try when he gets back.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Yeah. . .
Neither the "good" drive nor the one originally marked as bad will mount. So much for being SAFE.
Boss wants to give it a try when he gets back.
If you're willing, remove a drive from the case and mount it directly into a computer - the USB controller might be what is dead, not the drive.
You can also try running Spinrite on it once you connect it to computer.
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Mounting it now into a tower, and booting into Linux to see if it can even see the drive.
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We have partial lift off!
Drive is seen in Ubuntu, Disk is ok with 1 bad sector.
Mounting . . .Now for the massive explosion
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@DustinB3403 said:
We have partial lift off!
Drive is seen in Ubuntu, Disk is ok with 1 bad sector.
Mounting . . .Now for the massive explosion
Explosion?
I assume you are copying the data to another drive?
If you run into any areas that can't be read, and I know I sound like a broken record, but try spinrite.
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It's still attempting to mount the drive, so we'll see once we get there.
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@DustinB3403 said:
It's still attempting to mount the drive, so we'll see once we get there.
You boot from the spinrite disk, it loads a version of FreeDos to run from. you don't run it inside of Linux.
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I started using OWA full time... I'm amazed at how much faster it is then the Outlook desktop application.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Trying to recover any data off of a failed RAID 1 (2-Drive laCie) . . . fun . . .
Ouch, at least recovery tools tend to work on RAID 1 pretty well since all the data is in two places.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Well we got a replacement drive, as Drive 2 was marked as bad, and let it "run a resilver" for a very long time. 2 days... at which point the system went into a full failed state.
So much fun.
Sounds likely that the Lacie itself, not the array, failed. Often the system failing will take the array with it, of course.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Yeah. . .
Neither the "good" drive nor the one originally marked as bad will mount. So much for being SAFE.
Boss wants to give it a try when he gets back.
An array is only ever as safe as the device that it is in
The drives will not "mount" elsewhere, you will need to use tools on them as they have a RAID system on them that another device is not going to be able to read natively.
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@coliver said:
I started using OWA full time... I'm amazed at how much faster it is then the Outlook desktop application.
It really is. SO much better most of the time. I've been on OWA for about two years now.
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Just had lunch. Have twenty minutes before my next session. Taking a few minutes to catch up here.
