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I am running OS 10.3.5 on a plain G5 with external FW800 LaCie twin 305GB drives as RAID 1. After a freeze I had to shut down the machine and on restart got an unrecognixzable disk in the RAID array, so shut the machine down and went to bed.

This morning it boots fine and DiskUtility shows the RAID array with both disks degraded.

But…I checked the Raid status with terminal as suggested in

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106987

and it says both disks have status OK

Name: Hydra
Unique ID: Hydrab2e9e566214a11d99823000a95afef40
Type: Mirror
Status: Degraded
Device Node: disk6
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# Device Node Status
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0 disk5 OK
1 disk2 OK
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I also ran Disk Warrior to rebuild the directory and ran repair in Disk Utilities and they checked out OK

Is it possible there isn’t a problem? or if not how would I find a problem?

Apple notes that with the OS X Server it is possible to ignore the degraded status in some cases, implying it might be mistakenly reported

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107406

anyone ever heard of this? any suggestions

thanks

ps I also note that the disk is journalled and diskutil implies the journal is overflowed

disktuil info disk6

G5:~ user$ diskutil info disk6
Device Node: /dev/disk6
Device Identifier: disk6
Mount Point: /Volumes/Hydra
Volume Name: Hydra

File System: Journaled HFS+
Journal size 32768 k at offset 0x98d000
Permissions: Disabled
Partition Type:
Bootable: Not bootable
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: FireWire

Total Size: 305.3 GB
Free Space: 112.3 GB

Read Only: No
Ejectable: No
OS 9 Drivers: No
Low Level Format: Not Supported

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