On 25/6/07 16:59, Christopher Waltham wrote:
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.
[snip]
Short of buying a copy of DiskWarrior, does anyone have a fix for
this? Or has anyone even seen this happen before?
Chris,
I am afraid that this has been reported before, and seems to be the rule
with Panther RAID-1 arrays that are not converted to Tiger format before
trying to repair them under Tiger.
I don't know if this has made Apple's KnowledgeBase yet, but I reported it
in Bug Buster in The Works in MacUser in vol 22 (2006) issue no 24,
following email from Simon Banton.
