I'm in trouble with an raid5 array. Do I have to scratch everything or there is something I can do ... Array configuration: raid-5, 6 disks, no spare disks configured. The sdg1 gone in fail state (power fail ... I think the disks is good). During the recovery the sdb1 gone in fail state. thanx in advance. vince h3netapp1:~# mdadm -E /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdg1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : 59bc9243:bb78edbc:2876bbe9:43d1ec04 Creation Time : Thu May 6 09:00:59 2004 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 72204032 (68.86 GiB 73.94 GB) Raid Devices : 6 Total Devices : 7 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Mon Aug 30 16:15:43 2004 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 6 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 2 Checksum : b0c5526f - correct Events : 0.37 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 6 8 97 6 spare /dev/sdg1 0 0 0 0 0 faulty removed 1 1 8 33 1 active sync /dev/sdc1 2 2 8 49 2 active sync /dev/sdd1 3 3 8 65 3 active sync /dev/sde1 4 4 8 81 4 active sync /dev/sdf1 5 5 0 0 5 faulty removed 6 6 8 97 6 spare /dev/sdg1 7 7 8 17 7 spare /dev/sdb1 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html