Cannot re-assemble Degraded RAID6 after crash

2007-12-17 Thread Erich Newell
My system has crashed a couple of times, each time the two drives have dropped off of the RAID. Previously I simply did the following, which would take all night: mdadm -a --re-add /dev/md2 /dev/sde3 mdadm -a --re-add /dev/md2 /dev/sdf3 mdadm -a --re-add /dev/md3 /dev/sde5 mdadm -a --re-add

Failed Recovery - Errors in Degraded Mode

2005-12-01 Thread Erich Newell
Hello. I have a degraded 4 disk raid 5 array consisting of: /dev/sdd3 /dev/sdc3 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sda3 Recently on boot the system crashed mid-boot for another unrelated (I think) config issue. I then booted with a live cd and when I tried to re-build /dev/md0, /dev/sdb3 came up as faulty. Upon

Data errors on clean, degraded Raid5. Help Please.

2005-12-01 Thread Erich Newell
I apologize for being so verbose in my last post...it was late. My problem again, in a more succinct form: After a system crash during bootup, I attempted: mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdb3 This caused the following: Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 510

Re: Data errors on clean, degraded Raid5. Help Please.

2005-12-01 Thread Erich Newell
Thank you for the feedback Neil. Although, your last comment did confuse me a little...run what in parallel? Should I be running badblocks against the unassembled components of the raid and then doing something like: fsck -l /badblockfile_sda3.txt /dev/md0 fsck -l /badblockfile_sdb3.txt