Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756620AbZIDAcr (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 20:32:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756592AbZIDAcq (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 20:32:46 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f195.google.com ([209.85.212.195]:46766 "EHLO mail-vw0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755395AbZIDAcq (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 20:32:46 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=HPq6sFX5vpYgd89N6HW/Wbsz2hUgQSzfGKLwXP+Ea8+iIf6gBxYdbE4MJkcLjrCRGh sU/KVw2jXBtUicETVUoSETqdIprFU9FNPNgD/2oCe15IBP1Wr4hHMIhwD1x0HyGXOSMK F8XV1lC5iIsZvhTUgpM18iCD5RMNeMObQ9Ecw= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200909031809.58107.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> References: <200909031809.58107.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> From: David Rees Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:32:28 -0700 Message-ID: <72dbd3150909031732p76275c83hc43ca30601be3e53@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: mvsas issues To: tfjellstrom@shaw.ca Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 17 On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/