Normally we don't go straight to the goat sacrifice, but this was a special case. Lost two of seven spindles in a raid 5 array. Rose would know what that means... and its very bad. You can lose one disk in a raid, but not two. Lose two and the whole volume is pretty much toast.
But the nice gentleman at Dell Powervault support and I talked about it, and decided... what the heck... lets force 'em back online and spin 'em up. It can't really get any worse.
Lo and behold... they spun up... the volume reappearred, and apparently without corrupting any data. Running an all-night consistency check on the data tonight.
[whew]
I'm sure that would be fascinating if you could translate it into English.
However, I am glad that it worked out. ;-)
<smile>And how are you this evening?