On Friday August 15, ekkehard@lissners.de wrote: > > If there is no normal way to reconstruct the array without losing my > data, how about patching the timestamps with > a disk-editor? Which bytes must be read from sdc1 and be written to sdd1 > and sdb1? > Your array sounds very sick, though it is not at all clear what the problem really is. I suggest you get mdadm, and use mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/sd[bcd]1 It will try to assemble the array for force-update event counts as necessary. What kernel version are you running? 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