Subject: Lost RAIDframe config-- can it be rebuilt?
To: NetBSD Help <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Alex Cavnar <alc6379@comcast.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/21/2004 22:59:25
Greetings, 

First time poster, long time NetBSD lover. I've got an old box here I
was using as a dumping ground for files. Here was the setup:

5x4.3GB UW SCSI drives in Raid 5. 
1x2.1GB IDE hard drive as the boot volume (it had all of the system
files on it)

The 2.1 GB drive died, and took along all of the files with it,
including my raid0.conf file. I've got a new drive, and I'm ready to
reinstall on it, but I need to rebuild the RAID config file. (Yeah yeah,
I didn't back it up-- this box was meant to be a trash-type box) Two
questions: 

Is there some way that I could rebuild the RAID config from the RAID
itself? I used raidctl -A /dev/raid0 on it, if that helps any. 

If the answer to question 1 is NO, what would happen if I were to use
the incorrect stripe size when manually rebuilding the file? I can't
remember if it was 128 or 32!

Thanks in advance for the help, and feel free to slap, chide, or make
fun of me in whatever fashion you like for not backing up my files. 

Thanks, 
--Alex Cavnar