[CS-FSLUG] Dead Proliant 6500

[Tim Young]

You can see it probing for the data space at:
ida/c0d0
ida/c0d1
ida/c0d2

My guess is that the second raid system will be
ida/c1d1
ida/c1d2
etc...

You should be able to:
fdisk -l /dev/ida/c1d1

fdisk -l (the letter L) will list the partition table on that particular drive.  Usually during bootup Linux does notice drives that have data, which you do not have any of in your dmesg.  There is a chance that you cannot access the raid system.  But give it a shot.  CD into the /dev/ida directory and see what files you have there.  A quick way to test them all out will be:

# cd /dev/ida
# for a in *; do fdisk -l $a; done

This will probe each entry in your raid that you have a device for.

Note:  It is possible that the raid array itself is what went bad.  When that happens, your only hope is to purchase the same model raid card, or to borrow one from somewhere.  Each hardware raid card handles the raid formatting differently and it is tough to find alternatives that are compatible with your original one.


Alan Marsh wrote:
> A local church/private school has a Proliant 6500 server that was running
> Windows 2000. I have been trying to get them to buy a new server and let
> me put some open source OS on it. They only use it as a file server with a
> max of 5 concurrent users.
>
> It is configured with one 9 gig SCSI drive with RAID 0 for the operating
> system and six 9 gig SCSI drives in RAID 5 arrangement.
>
> (Disclaimer: I've installed Linux and BSD on tons of consumer level PC's,
> but never messed with RAID or anything like that.)
>
> The single drive with the operating system failed (has yellow light). RAID
> 0 so that whole machine is down. I don't have any spare drives.
>
> I have a Iomega NAS 100d that I want to use as a fileserver (band-aid)
> while I get the new server. I just want to get the data off the box and to
> another location.
>
> I booted with a Knoppix disk just fine (also Puppy and others), but how
> can I mount the RAID 5 thing and access the files?
>
> Any help would be appreciated, dmesg follows:
>
> 000:b8000000)
> Detected 200.028 MHz processor.
> Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 294912
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd.gz loglevel=3
> PMEDIA=idecd BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
> Initializing CPU#0
> PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> Memory: 1163976k/1179648k available (2414k kernel code, 14844k reserved,
> 797k data, 176k init, 262144k highmem)
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 400.59 BogoMIPS
> (lpj=2002967)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: L1 I cache: 8K, L1 D cache: 8K
> CPU: L2 cache: 512K
> CPU: After all inits, caps: 0000f3ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000
> 00000000 00000000
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
> CPU: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an
> initrd
> Freeing initrd memory: 1230k freed
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> EISA bus registered
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0070, last bus=10
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> Setting up standard PCI resources
> ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
> Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
> pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
> PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
> PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS support was not detected.
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
> PCI: i440KX/GX host bridge 0000:00:19.0: secondary bus 00
> PCI: i440KX/GX host bridge 0000:00:1a.0: secondary bus 03
> Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
> PCI: Device 0000:00:0f.0 not found by BIOS
> PCI: Device 0000:00:14.0 not found by BIOS
> PCI: Device 0000:00:19.0 not found by BIOS
> PCI: Device 0000:00:1a.0 not found by BIOS
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
>   IO window: disabled.
>   MEM window: 51000000-510fffff
>   PREFETCH window: a7000000-a7ffffff
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
>   IO window: 5000-5fff
>   MEM window: b7d00000-b7dfffff
>   PREFETCH window: a8000000-afffffff
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:03:01.0
>   IO window: c000-cfff
>   MEM window: c6f00000-c6ffffff
>   PREFETCH window: 51200000-512fffff
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
> TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
> TCP reno registered
> highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
> squashfs: version 3.1 (2006/08/19) Phillip Lougher
> NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W].
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler cfq registered (default)
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
> Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 13824K size 1024 blocksize
> loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: CD-ROM CDU571-Q, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> libata version 2.00 loaded.
> PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
> serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> md: bitmap version 4.39
> EISA: Probing bus 0 at 0000:00:0f.0
> EISA: Mainboard CPQ1565 detected.
> Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
> Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5
> EISA: Detected 0 cards.
> TCP bic registered
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> Using IPI Shortcut mode
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
> input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
> hda: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> Registering unionfs 20060916-2203
> unionfs: debugging is not enabled
> fuse init (API version 7.7)
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input1
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> sym0: <875> rev 0x4 at pci 0000:00:09.0 irq 9
> sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
> sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
> scsi0 : sym-2.2.3
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0d.0 (0000 -> 0002)
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:0d.0. Please try
> using pci=biosirq.
>  RAM (2048 kB) at 0xxa5000000, Cirrus Logic chipset on PCI bus
> cirrusfb: Driver for Cirrus Logic based graphic boards, v2.0-pre2
>  RAM (2048 kB) at 0xxa7000000, Cirrus Logic chipset on PCI bus
> cirrusfb: Driver for Cirrus Logic based graphic boards, v2.0-pre2
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.6.0)
> cpqarray: Device 0xae10 has been found at bus 2 dev 0 func 0
> cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (SMART-2/P)
> cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=5051040
> cpqarray ida/c0d1: blksz=512 nr_blks=5467200
> cpqarray ida/c0d2: blksz=512 nr_blks=7246080
> cpqarray ida/c0d3: blksz=512 nr_blks=88854240
>  ida/c0d0:<4>Fatal error on ida/c0d0
> Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d0, logical block 0
> Fatal error on ida/c0d0
> Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d0, logical block 0
> Fatal error on ida/c0d0
> Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d0, logical block 0
> ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
> Fatal error on ida/c0d0
> Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d0, logical block 0
>  unable to read partition table
>  ida/c0d1:<4>Fatal error on ida/c0d1
> Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d1, logical block 0
> Fatal error on ida/c0d1
> Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d1, logical block 0
> Fatal error on ida/c0d1
> Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d1, logical block 0
> ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
> Fatal error on ida/c0d1
> Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d1, logical block 0
>  unable to read partition table
>  ida/c0d2:<4>Fatal error on ida/c0d2
> Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d2, logical block 0
> Fatal error on ida/c0d2
> Buffer I/O error on device ida/c0d2, logical block 0
> Fatal error on ida/c0d2
> ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
> Fatal error on ida/c0d2
>  unable to read partition table
>  ida/c0d3: unknown partition table
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> ThunderLAN driver v1.15
> TLAN: eth0 irq=15, io=c000, Compaq Netelligent Dual 10/100 TX PCI UTP,
> Rev. 16
> TLAN: eth1 irq= 5, io=c010, Compaq Netelligent Dual 10/100 TX PCI UTP,
> Rev. 16
> TLAN: 2 devices installed, PCI: 2  EISA: 0
> parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP]
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> lp0: console ready
> usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
> usbcore: registered new driver hub
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
>
> That's it! Thanks
>
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