> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 6:25 PM Mike - Really strongly consider bringing in a pro, or at very least, buying some scratch disks so you can work with copies. Forced assembly doesn't look at the data if you are degraded, so it has high potential to make things worse. Too many things going on here ... If data is backed up and you just want to save some time with an experiment ... then go forward with assume-clean. But it will likely destroy a large chunk of your data in the process, destroy it forever. David -- 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