The drive is completely dead, it doesn't appear in the system, the mdadm remove command fails because it says there is no drive (/dev/sdb) on the system, I'll try to convice my client (again) to install another drive. BTW: good advise about bad sectors, thanks! BTW2: I'm playing land of Drogon, I think is really cool! Raul. El sáb, 13-05-2006 a las 16:16 +0100, Gordon Henderson escribió: > Ask your client just how valuable their email data is... > > How badly broken is the drive? If it's just a bad sector then you may be > able to resurect it - which will provide a degree of redundancy again > util such time as the server can be replaced. > > If you use mdadm to remove all the md? partitions, (mdadm --remove > /dev/md? /dev/sdb?) then you can run something like > > badblocks -w -s -c 128 /dev/sdb? > > etc. for every partition that was in the md? arrays. This will write to > every sector and will force a sector re-allocate on bad sectors, if the > drive supports it. You can then mdadm --add them back into the array. > > (Running a badblocks in standard read mode on the live partitions is > always prudent at this point though just in-case you find another band > sector there!) > > Gordon > - 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
