I'll try the force assemble but it sounds like I'm screwed. It sounds
like what happened was that two of my drives developed bad sectors in
different places that weren't found until I accessed certain areas (in
the case of the first failure) and did the drive rebuild (for the second
failure). In the future, is there a way to help prevent this? Given
that the bad sectors were likely on different parts of their respective
drives, I should still have a complete copy of all the data right? Is
it possible to recover from a partial two-disk failure using all the disks?
It looks like I might as well cut my losses and buy new disks (I suspect
the last two drives are near death given whats happened to their
brethren). If I go SATA am I better off getting 2 dual port cards or 1
four port?
Thanks again.
James
Neil Brown wrote:
On Tuesday August 8, jamespev@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The resize went fine, but after re-adding the drive back into the array
I got another fail event (on another drive) about 23% through the
rebuild :(
Did I have to "remove" the bad drive before re-adding it with mdadm? I
think my array might be toast...
You wouldn't be able to re-add the drive without removing it first.
But why did you re-add the failed drive? Why not add the new one? Or
maybe you did...
2 drives failed - yes - that sounds a bit like toast.
You can possible do a --force assemble without the new drive and try
to backup the data somewhere - if you have somewhere large enough.
NeilBrown
Any tips on where I should go now?
Thanks for the help.
James
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