On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Oliver Martin <oliver.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'll see if I can recover my data, but do you have any ideas what caused > the problem in the first place? > Did one of the disks cause the USB reset message? It appears to coincide with the start of the trouble, but it may be just that, coincidence. Mar 2 01:06:02 quassel kernel: md: using 128k window, over a total of 488383936 blocks. Mar 2 09:03:43 quassel kernel: usb 4-5.3.2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 Mar 2 09:25:15 quassel kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-0): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #57262081: directory entry across blocks - offset=0, inode=2917738116, rec_len=11736, name_len=107 Mar 2 10:30:46 quassel kernel: md: md0: data-check done. The output of something like 'ls -l /sys/block/sdb/device' should tell. Have you run this operation on a kernel version prior to 2.6.24.3? If so, which version? -- Dan -- 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