-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I run a 3 disk RAID5 on a debian 2.6.26 machine. Last weekend one of that disk went bad and the raid went on with 2 disks. Now I restarted and added the 3d disk and the RAID5 went crazy, callind disks after disk faulty and (S)... and I do not know why. Information: mdadm -E /dev/md1 /dev/sde1 mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/md1. /dev/sde1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.02 UUID : d9fde523:3bcc01a6:041868f5:0ec5fcb6 Creation Time : Tue Jan 17 14:30:37 2006 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 976759936 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Array Size : 1953519872 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Thu Dec 11 14:46:37 2008 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Checksum : 9972dbb9 - correct Events : 2851680 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 1 8 65 1 active sync /dev/sde1 0 0 0 0 0 removed 1 1 8 65 1 active sync /dev/sde1 2 2 8 97 2 active sync /dev/sdg1 3 3 8 49 3 spare /dev/sdd1 trinculo:~# mdadm -E /dev/md1 /dev/sdg1 mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/md1. /dev/sdg1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.02 UUID : d9fde523:3bcc01a6:041868f5:0ec5fcb6 Creation Time : Tue Jan 17 14:30:37 2006 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 976759936 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Array Size : 1953519872 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Thu Dec 11 14:55:06 2008 State : clean Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 9972ddaf - correct Events : 2851688 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 2 8 97 2 active sync /dev/sdg1 0 0 0 0 0 removed 1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed 2 2 8 97 2 active sync mdadm -E /dev/md1 /dev/sdd1 mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/md1. /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.02 UUID : d9fde523:3bcc01a6:041868f5:0ec5fcb6 Creation Time : Tue Jan 17 14:30:37 2006 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 976759936 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Array Size : 1953519872 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Thu Dec 11 14:46:49 2008 State : clean Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 1 Checksum : 9972dbca - correct Events : 2851686 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 3 8 49 3 spare /dev/sdd1 0 0 0 0 0 removed 1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed 2 2 8 97 2 active sync /dev/sdg1 3 3 8 49 3 spare /dev/sdd1 In which /dev/sdd went bad and was offline. How can I try to reassemble that raid5? MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklBHasACgkQmWhuE0qbFyM1ugCeMwRpI6mv8rps8B51l4sNxBZo KH0An3OsTEOlKtoQugxiE7pC5S7xnQl2 =7rDg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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