Yep. Don't panic and don't do anything else yet if you're not confident about what you're doing. I'll follow up with more info in a short while. Info you can provide: kernel version mdadm version cat /proc/mdstat mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abcdef]1 (or whatever your array components are) relevant smartctl info on the bad drive(s) dmesg info about the drive failures Assuming genuine hardware failure: Do you have any spare drives that you can use to replace the components? David Cry wrote: > Folks, > > I had a drive fail on my 6 drive raid-5 array. while syncing in the replacement > drive (11 percent complete) a second drive went bad. > > Any suggestions to recover as much data as possible from the array? > > Joel > > -- > 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 -- 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
