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  • #366211
    Anonymous
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    Not sure where to put this, so here goes… I’m in the process of rebuilding a G5 tower used as a server that was built by a predecessor. It boots off two 250GB drives that are RAIDed. I don’t have the password, so I attempted to change it using a Tiger install disk. Somehow booting off the DVD has broken the RAID set. I’m booting off a FW drive we use for diagnostics, and the drives show up in DiskUtility, but no RAID set up. if I do a ‘sudo diskutil checkRAID’ it says there’s no RAID set to check.

    If I list the drives they show up fine, but neither one mounts. Output (edited) is:
    [code] /dev/disk2
    #: type name size identifier
    0: Apple_partition_scheme *233.8 GB disk2
    1: Apple_partition_map 31.5 KB disk2s1
    2: Apple_Driver_OpenFirmware 512.0 KB disk2s2
    3: Apple_Boot_RAID 233.8 GB disk2s3
    /dev/disk4
    #: type name size identifier
    0: Apple_partition_scheme *233.8 GB disk4
    1: Apple_partition_map 31.5 KB disk4s1
    2: Apple_Driver_OpenFirmware 512.0 KB disk4s2
    3: Apple_Boot_RAID 233.8 GB disk4s3[/code]

    So the sanity check is this: If I run a repair mirror (sudo diskutil repairMirror disk2 disk4) will it wipe both drives or just rebuild the existing RAID setup? Is there any way to turn the separate RAID disks back into normal drives?

    #366219
    chiefgeek
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    First, I assume they were RAID level 1.
    Macshome has an article [url=https://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20040827122302975&query=diskutil%2Braid]here[/url] on how to do it.
    I don’t think you want to repair the mirror, especially not both drives. I’ve broken a mirrored set on purpose (shut down, pull plug) a few times and can still boot from the remaining drive.
    Sounds like perhaps it was RAID 0, in which case, you’re hosed. 😯

    #366222
    Anonymous
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    No it was Mirrored, RAID 1. Not striped.

    Thanks for the help, but I’ve already found that page and it didn’t work. The problem is neither of the mirrored drives will mount at all. They show up in a ‘diskutil list’ but I can’t get them to show on the desktop. Tried to mount them several times, but no dice. Since they won’t mount, I can’t add them to a new RAID set.

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