I have a G5 Xserve running 10.4.8 Server, with a pair of 80GB drives
in a RAID1 array. One of the disks became degraded this morning, but
diskutil didn't fix it automatically. This seems to be because the
array was created in 10.3.9 Server (i.e. Panther), and thus was made
with AppleRAID version 1.
So, I booted off a 10.4 install DVD and ran "diskutil convertRAID" to
convert the array to AppleRAID 2 so that I could repair it. The logs
from diskutil say that everything went flawlessly and it only took a
couple of minutes to complete. However, upon rebooting the Xserve
after that, the RAID array exists but the volume it contains has
seemingly disappeared.
I'm back to booting off the install DVD, because OS X can no longer
find it's boot partition. Disk Utility, when launched from the DVD,
says that the array is Online but both disks that used to house the
array are Offline. Strangely, it reports the name of the volume as
being "Macintosh HD" instead of "pinkham", which was the name of the
volume before I ran diskutil on it. When I run the "Verify Disk"
command in Disk Utility on the RAID volume, I get this error:
"Invalid volume header
Invalid b-tree node size"
Short of buying a copy of DiskWarrior, does anyone have a fix for
this? Or has anyone even seen this happen before?
Thanks,
Chris
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