On Wednesday July 10, mblack@csi-inc.com wrote: > You don't say why two disks were kicked or when it happend so sdc may be out-of-whack a bit. Sounds like sdc got kicked first. > So...I would do a bad-block scan on sdb2 so it can remap the bad section and re-build as you've been trying to do. > > If you REALLY want to use sda and sdc just rebuild the array with --create and leave sdb out of it. You shouldn't lose much data if > sdc is current. Better still, do that --assemble and leave sdb out of it. i.e. mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdc2 Then it will have to use a2 and c2. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html