Molle Bestefich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 22 April 2006 05:54: >Tim Bostrom wrote: >> raid5: Disk failure on hdf1, disabling device. > >MD doesn't like to find errors when it's rebuilding. >It will kick that disk off the array, which will cause MD to return >crap (instead of stopping the array and removing the device - I >wonder), again causing 'mount' etc. to fail. > >Quite unfortunate for you, since you have absolutely no redundancy >with 4/5 drives, and you really can't afford to have the 4th disk >kicked just because there's a bad block on it.
Yes... As Molle says, you have a chance that it's a driver/cable problem. What you can also do is dd the disk to another one and try to rebuild the array with the new disk so that you won't get errors during the reconstruction. If you get errors during the copy you'll have to decide what to do with the bad blocks. Some people prefer to use ddrescue instead of dd; I've never tried it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
