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From: David Rees <drees76@gmail.com>
To: tfjellstrom@shaw.ca
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mvsas issues
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:32:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <72dbd3150909031732p76275c83hc43ca30601be3e53@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909031809.58107.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom<tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> wrote:
> I just got a Marvell SAS card, And I've been trying to copy one set of disks
> over to another before one of the drives dies for good...

Have you tried using one of the rescue oriented versions of dd to make
a copy of the failing disk?  Then copy the image to a good disk and
recreate your array (do it in read-only mode!) and see what you can
recover.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29#Recovery-oriented_variants_of_dd

-Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-04  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-04  0:09 Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-09-04  0:32 ` David Rees [this message]
2009-09-04  5:17   ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-09-04 21:54     ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-05-11  9:31 Full Name

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