On Friday July 12, stclists@wearesimply.com wrote: > > Now, the event counter for the raid 5 array lists 3 different things - 5 > drives show event counter to be 00 00 00 38, 1 drive shows 00 00 00 28 (hda), > and 1 drive shows 00 00 00 37 (hdd). Looks like hda has be out-of-it for quite a while... you really need to monitor raid status somehow. > Even if hdd is completely bad, I can't afford to lose 250 GB of > data... You do have backups of course.... :-) > > Any ideas or suggestions? Get mdadm http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ and use mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/hd...... (i.e. after the name of the array, list all the component drives). 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