have you tried recovery from cd? if the arrays are detected by the rescue cd 
then fsck the filesystem. are you using XFS? 

--- On Fri, 4/3/09, jan gestre <[email protected]> wrote:
From: jan gestre <[email protected]>
Subject: [plug] repairing raid5 on both gutsy and heron
To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" 
<[email protected]>
Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 8:17 AM

Hi Guys,
I have two file server that's running both gutsy and heron respectively, both 
of them have RAID5 devices (Linux RAID) and both of the arrays seems to break 
now and then,  I have no problem recovering and repairing the array on heron 
but I can't get it done on gutsy. Basically I just removed the declared faulty 
drive and re-add the same and assemble the array, but this same technique won't 
work on gutsy. I want to re-create the array on the gutsy box but I have some 
apprehension, number 1 of which what if I would never be able to recover the 
data. The gutsy box has three raid devices, md0, md1 and md2, I'm quite sure 
that md0 is my boot partition and is on RAID1, and both md1 and md2 are RAID5, 
since I don't remember which RAID device is my /home and / partition my 
question is would it matter if I re-create and assemble md1 with the following 
devices (sdb2 sdc2 and sdd2) and md2 with (sdb5, sdc5 and sdd5) respectively if 
the original members is the other
 way around? (in Tagalog nagkabaligtad?) I'm afraid I might lose the files if I 
made this mistake.

BTW, the gutsy box won't boot normally it goes directly to initramfs.
Any suggestions?
TIA.
Jan
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