Hi all,
I have a server with SuperMicro X8STE motherboard with a fake-RAID controller. The system isfreebsd FreeBSD 8. Two Seagate hard drives are set up in a RAID 1. Yesterday the server crashed and failed to boot. When booting RAID controller shows that the first hard drive is "offline" so the RAID was degraded:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r96hg5zzxbq9osd/2012-04-25 20.53.48.jpg
Freebsd FreeBSD continues booting and when it comes to detecting hard drives it crashes with a message as on this picture I took:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p8z26yz44boxthb/2012-04-25 18.08.17.jpg
So, my questions:
Thank you in advance.
I have a server with SuperMicro X8STE motherboard with a fake-RAID controller. The system is
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r96hg5zzxbq9osd/2012-04-25 20.53.48.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p8z26yz44boxthb/2012-04-25 18.08.17.jpg
So, my questions:
- Why the system can't boot from the second drive? Isn't RAID 1 supposed to do that?
- Now I should place a new hard drive instead of the broken one and it all will be ok? Am I right?
- Is there the way to back up the stored on the second drive data? E.g. by mounting the drive in a live CD? I managed to mount some of the partitions in linux live CD by /dev/dm-* devices, but the partition I need is totally corrupted and gives many I/O errors. Could I mount ones from the second drive only? There are no /dev/sdb* devices, only /dev/sda and /dev/sdb that are my Seagates. fdisk shows partition tables on both disks.
Thank you in advance.