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RAID issues after upgrading Hardware.

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RAID issues after upgrading Hardware.
« on: December 23, 2010, 10:13:02 PM »
HI I upgraded my server hardware (new box) and migrated the data using the standard SME backup feature. (SME 7.5) I setup the new Box with a Fresh SME 7.5 O/S with all the latest upgrades.
Main difference with the two setups is that the old box had IDE RAID (2*80GB Hard Disks) and the new one has (2*80GB SATA Disks).
I upgraded the hardware as I was starting to get performance and some hardware failure issues.
The migration went well, no issues with data etc.
but after a day i began to get RAID error notifications. It showed the following errors.
The server still works flawlessly with no apparent performance issues.

A DegradedArray event has been detected on md device /dev/md1.
A DegradedArray event has been detected on md device /dev/md2.


I checked the admin console and got the following information from the RAID Management Menu:



 ┌─────Disk redundancy status as of Friday December 24, 2010 09:54:36───────┐on
 │ Current RAID status:                                                     │
 │                                                                          │
 │ Personalities : [raid1]                                                  │
 │ md2 : active raid1 sda2[0]                                               │
 │       78043648 blocks [2/1] [U_]                                         │
 │ md1 : active raid1 sda1[0]                                               │
 │       104320 blocks [2/1] [U_]                                           │
 │ unused devices: <none>                                                   │
 │                                                                          │
 │                                                                          │
 │ The free disk count must equal one.                                      │
 │                                                                          │
 │ Manual intervention may be required.                                     │
 │                                                                          │
 │ Current disk status:                                                     │
 │                                                                          │
 │ Installed disks: sdc sdb sda                                             │
 │ Used disks: sda                                                          │
 ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────  94% ─┤
 │                                 < Next >                                 │
 └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

other information:


[root@server ~]# fdisk -l | more
Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2              14        9729    78043770   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2              14        9726    78019672+  fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/md1: 106 MB, 106823680 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 26080 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/md2: 79.9 GB, 79916695552 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 19510912 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/dm-0: 78.0 GB, 78014054400 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 19046400 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/dm-1: 1879 MB, 1879048192 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 458752 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/sdc: 250.0 GB, 250058268160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1       24283   195053166   83  Linux
/dev/sdc2           24284       30401    49142835   83  Linux




From this information is it correct to assume:

1. There is no Redundancy RAID setup over two disks?
2. There is only one disk being used??
3. Is the fault related to SATA/IDE Drive setup??

Ive have had a look through the RAID documentation but do not want to progress further unless i have a clear understanding of the situation. Can anyone enlighten me on what is happening on my server and what the solution is.

Thanks for any helpful input. (Seasons greetings to all)