mary thanks for your quick reply
i unpluged (removed) sata 0 (sda) and sata 2 (sdb - data drive 1) and sata 3 (sdd - data drive 2) from the motherboard
i now get a new error message
sata 1 is on the sata 1 channel on the motherboard (this is the second drive on my raid 1 system - 400gig) which i can boot up but gives the error now
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Checking filesystems
/dev/md1: clean, 84,26104 files, 48756/104320 blocks
/dev/sdb:
The superblock could nor be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the defvice is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck - b 8192 <<device>
/dev/sdd:
The superblock could nor be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the defvice is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck - b 8192 <<device>
fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdb
fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdd
[FAILED]
*** An error occurred during file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):
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the only drive that is running on my system is the raid 1 sata 1 drive on sata channel 1 - must i place this on the sata 0 channel (will that help)
what now