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Striped + Mirrored software RAID no longer mounting

I have a MacPro 4,1 using the 4 internal bays each with a 1.5GB drive. Drives 1&2 are mirrored, drives 3&4 are mirrored. Those 2 mirrored drives are then striped together for a volume called 'Titanic.' Been working great for years, but just recently Titanic will no longer mount. My mirrors don't show any errors, but it seems I lost the stripe configuration. I updated to Yosemite last week. When running verify and repair I get:


Invalid number of allocation blocks. The volume could not be verified completely. File system check exit code is 8.


Running Terminal's checkRaid I get this:


AppleRAID sets (3 found)
===============================================================================
Name:                 Mirror2
Unique ID:            43EF978D-B5CF-4410-82A9-CB0E880B8759
Type:                 Mirror
Status:               Online
Size:                 1.5 TB (1499957919744 Bytes)
Rebuild:              manual
Device Node:          -
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  DevNode   UUID                                  Status     Size
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0  disk2s2   29788AC9-0B7A-4E7E-94BF-E9FD8F697421  Online     1499957919744
1  disk3s2   6DDF597F-B4A3-4AEB-AB8F-77BD4360A791  Online     1499957919744
===============================================================================
===============================================================================
Name:                 Titanic
Unique ID:            140B7C4C-9A76-4B5B-BFBF-FFE7968A99AB
Type:                 Stripe
Status:               Offline
Size:                 3.0 TB (2999915773952 Bytes)
Rebuild:              manual
Device Node:          -
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  DevNode   UUID                                  Status     Size
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  -none-    0B55A0E0-CFB1-4B38-84CF-794F5F2AD1D6  Missing/Damaged
1  -none-    43EF978D-B5CF-4410-82A9-CB0E880B8759  Online     1499957886976
===============================================================================
===============================================================================
Name:                 Mirror1
Unique ID:            0B55A0E0-CFB1-4B38-84CF-794F5F2AD1D6
Type:                 Mirror
Status:               Online
Size:                 1.5 TB (1499957919744 Bytes)
Rebuild:              manual
Device Node:          disk5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  DevNode   UUID                                  Status     Size
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0  disk4s2   A2103B4C-FF2C-4126-8D5C-DCBF68890AC2  Online     1499957919744
1  disk1s2   B549FC0E-D281-487F-9017-61F077D0E3A4  Online     1499957919744
===============================================================================


Essentially if my mirrors are fine can I repair the striping? I have everything backed up offsite, but before I put my resources in that direction is there anything I can do to repair the problem?

Posted on Mar 21, 2015 8:15 AM

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Mar 21, 2015 9:07 AM in response to dkonkel

My jab at it: Apple vs SoftRAID, for RAID 0+1?


Began under Mountain Lion or earlier without a rebuild?


The drives are enterprise type 7.2k 1.5TB (typo) and verified with checksum during vs lips and a tanning for weak sectors...?


SoftRAID today checks in background for media and I/O errors as well as stepped-read mirrors (3 should be minimum)


I don't see any reason not to erase and restore, probably to a new set of 3-4 2TB drives with current OS.

Striped + Mirrored software RAID no longer mounting

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