Re: Recover a XFS on raid -1 (linear) when one disk is broken

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 01:38:50AM +0200, Jan Banan wrote:

> I have tried thiS two times now and after about four hours the
> computer Crashes with this in /var/log/messages :

it's not a crash, it's the IDE layer bitching

> Second time the last sector mentioned was 28117656. Maybe I should
> try to skip over that and start right after that sector? If I read
> the man-page of "dd" right I should add something like
> "seek=28117718 skip=28117718" to that command-line to perform
> that.

yes, but conv=noerror should also skip over the bad sector too.  did
it not continue after this?

also, did you get the SMART values from the bad disk?  i still think
it's worth forcing a realloction and using the existing disk if it's
not *that* bad


  --cw