Hello,

tonight the unthinkable happend and two drives in a four drive raid 5 went offline within one hour. I deactivated the raid, turned the computer off and rebooted. I checked both drives and they are fine.

The raid consists of sdb1, sdc1, sdd1 and sde1.
sdd1 failed first, then sde1.
I use kernel 2.6.18.2 with raidtools 1.00.3-r6.

After reading through the howtos and archives the following should be the proper way to rescue the raid 5:

mark first failed drive as failed-disk, so my new raidtab entry should look like this:
====
raiddev /dev/md10
    raid-level              5
    nr-raid-disks           4
    nr-spare-disks          0
    persistent-superblock   1
    chunk-size              64k
    parity-algorithm        left-symmetric

    device                  /dev/sdb1
        raid-disk               0
    device                  /dev/sdc1
        raid-disk               1
    device                  /dev/sdd1
        failed-disk             2
    device                  /dev/sde1
        raid-disk               3
====

#mkraid --force /dev/md10

mark failed-disk as raid-disk and raidhotadd it.


Is this the right way to do it without screwing the array up?

Thanks & ciao,
Elmar Weber

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