Re: Strange Software RAID Problem

["Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx taylor intel com>]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 14:37, list maaghosting net wrote:
>    Forrest,
> Thanks for the response.  I have looked through my messages files and can't seem
> to turn up an errors on the array.  That's what got me confused at first, as I
> was under the impression the raid driver would log to syslog if one of the
> drives dropped off the array.  Luckily this machine is fairly new to be
> deployed and there are not too many users on it, so it can be pulled offline.
> 
> Any suggestions on the steps to rebuild this array?  I would rather not have to
> re-install Redhat+all of the software from scratch, etc :-)

So it is sda that dropped off the array.

Is it hot-pluggable?
Are the lights flashing? 
What does `fdisk -l` show?

You may want to find a copy of rescan-scsi-bus.sh and run that to see if
it finds sda again.

Again, make sure that you have a full backup, and that it works!

Forrest