Bernd_C
July 12th, 2008, 08:33 PM
Hi all,
So at the beginning of the year, I built my first server for all the every growing amount of data that I don't want to carry around on my laptop. Recognizing my laziness when it comes to backups, I opted to build a RAID5 server instead of just putting a NAS on my network. Having touched a Unix system for over 10 years, I felt this would be a great occasion to get my feet wet again. It all worked fine for a few months until...
Coming home from work one day, I walked into my apartment hearing the RAID card sounding the alarm. Well, that's why you want to have the redundancy of RAID5. A drive dies, you replace it and rebuild - done. So I rebooted and went into the RAID card's BIOS and learnt that 2 drives had failed. Now 2 drives from two different manufacturers failing within a 10 hour window seemed strange. So I went ahead, put the two drives back online and ran the consistency checker. Two days later, it was done stating that it had fixed it.
Starting the machine again, I got a boot disk error. Booting from the Ubuntu installer CD, I found that while I can see the physical drive created by the RAID card, I had no such luck regarding the partitions I had created.
Any suggestions what I can do?
This is the hardware I used:
MoBo: Foxconn WinFast 6100k8ma
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (Toledo)
RAM: Buffalo DD4003-1GB/BR
HDD: LSI MegaRAID i4 (RAID5), 2x WD5000AAJB, 2x ST3500630A
I had updated the MegaRAID firmware to N661 and created one big partition plus the swap partition. I am uncertain whether I formated them in ext2 or ext3. As OS, I installed Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS.
I plan to put another HDD into the machine connecting it directly to the MoBo so I can run the machine from it.
Whatever you think may work, I glad to try.
So at the beginning of the year, I built my first server for all the every growing amount of data that I don't want to carry around on my laptop. Recognizing my laziness when it comes to backups, I opted to build a RAID5 server instead of just putting a NAS on my network. Having touched a Unix system for over 10 years, I felt this would be a great occasion to get my feet wet again. It all worked fine for a few months until...
Coming home from work one day, I walked into my apartment hearing the RAID card sounding the alarm. Well, that's why you want to have the redundancy of RAID5. A drive dies, you replace it and rebuild - done. So I rebooted and went into the RAID card's BIOS and learnt that 2 drives had failed. Now 2 drives from two different manufacturers failing within a 10 hour window seemed strange. So I went ahead, put the two drives back online and ran the consistency checker. Two days later, it was done stating that it had fixed it.
Starting the machine again, I got a boot disk error. Booting from the Ubuntu installer CD, I found that while I can see the physical drive created by the RAID card, I had no such luck regarding the partitions I had created.
Any suggestions what I can do?
This is the hardware I used:
MoBo: Foxconn WinFast 6100k8ma
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (Toledo)
RAM: Buffalo DD4003-1GB/BR
HDD: LSI MegaRAID i4 (RAID5), 2x WD5000AAJB, 2x ST3500630A
I had updated the MegaRAID firmware to N661 and created one big partition plus the swap partition. I am uncertain whether I formated them in ext2 or ext3. As OS, I installed Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS.
I plan to put another HDD into the machine connecting it directly to the MoBo so I can run the machine from it.
Whatever you think may work, I glad to try.