We are running 10.4.11 on a PowerMac G5 with 2 SATA disks. We have
never
had a spare before. This was a fresh install of tiger too.
When trying to rebuild the mirror with diskutil repairMirror I get...
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Note: Syncing data between mirror partitions can take a very long
time.
2008-03-03 20:27:32.795 DiskManagementTool[25644] Cannot find RAID
children, bailing.
There was an error syncing data between the master and the new
mirror slice
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I have tried this from the 'live' system and from booting the server
install CD as well. Both give the same results. Both drives will
also boot
independently without the other attachted. I have also put in a new
hard
disk but cannot rebuild with that either.
Any help much appreciated.
Chris.
This is a known issue.
Your RAID was created with Apple RAID version 1, probably when you
were using Mac OS X 10.3.x, and you are trying to re-build it using
Apple RAID version 2 which is what comes with Disk Utility in Mac OS
X 10.4.x
What you'll need to do is copy the data off the version 1 RAID and
rebuild the RAID using version 2. Then you can restore the data.
In your case, take the spare off-line and copy all you data to that
spare drive. Rebuild the Mirror using Apple RAID version 2 and then
copy the data back.
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