Re: PE2950, RAID 0, failed disk

["Vince D. Kimball" <user=1348@nabble.blu.org>]

 I believe RAID 0 has no redundancy, so a single drive failure destroys 
the volume. 

Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: 
> I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with PERC 5/i, and 6 disks.  Two disks 
> have one logical volume via a hardware RAID 1 and consist of CentOS 5 
> 64-bit; the remaining four comprise a logical volume via a hardware 
> RAID 0, and is all user data. 
> 
> One drive on the RAID 0 went bad.   I removed it while the system was 
> on, tried a reboot, and the system hangs at RedHat Linux... Starting 
> 
> I tried to boot from a Fedora 8 CD, which sees the boot drives fine, 
> but not the RAID 0 partitions. 
> 
> Visiting the PERC controller setup claims the RAID 0 volume is 
> unavailable, or something similar, though it is defined, with one of 
> the disks labelled as missing, since I removed it from the system. 
> 
> How do I get the partitions on the RAID 0 setup back?   I have some of 
> the data, but need the rest, if possible, and the remaining three 
> disks appear physically healthy.   I'm also going to work with Dell 
> for some answers, and I've done a lot of googling. 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Scott 
>