zomo tech

Onboard RAID

Wednesday, 05. 17. 2006  –  Category: all, vague

Poor old zest.lemonia.org dropped off air, apparently with a dead CPU or motherboard. Its standby box,
juice.lemonia.org was brought up with 15 hour old data (the backup sync cron’d at 0300, the failure happened at ~1800), but not before attempting to stick one half of zest’s mirror into juice. The root fs at /dev/ad1s1a was fine, but the main data fs wasn’t:

[root@ /var]# fsck /dev/ad1s1d
** /dev/ad1s1d
CANNOT READ BLK: 204735648
CONTINUE? [yn] y
THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 204735648, 204735649, 204735650, 204735651,
/dev/ad1s1d: INCOMPLETE LABEL: type 4.2BSD fsize 0, frag 0, cpg 0, size 205012094
[root@ /var]# mount -o ro /mnt/ark
WARNING: /mnt/ark was not properly dismounted
[root@ /var]# cd /mnt/ark
[root@ /mnt/ark]# ls
.snap home old
[root@ /mnt/ark]# ls -l
panic: vrele: negative ref cnt
Uptime: 28m42s
Cannot dump. No dump device defined.
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort


Is this the BIOS-y raid storing its metadata where it shouldn’t? Chipset is a Promise PDC20276.

Of course, there could be a genuine problem with this disk, but I won’t know till I’ve found a replacement CPU / mobo.