Hello, I am not sure whether troubleshooting messages are allowed on the mdadm mailing list (or it is for development and bugs only) so please point me in the right direction if this is not the right place. Before posting here I have tried using the following resources for information: >Google >Distribution IRC channel (Ubuntu) >Linuxquestions.org My knowledge of Linux is beginner/moderate. My setup is: 9x1tb Hard Drives (2xhitachi and 7x Samsung HD103UJ) Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 8 Port SATA Card 1xMotherboard SATA port Single RAID5 array created with mdadm, printout of /proc/mdstat: root@server3:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : active raid5 sdj1[7] sdc1[0] sda1[8] sdg1[6] sdi1[9](F) sdd1[4] sde1[3] sdh1[2] sdf1[10](F) 7814079488 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [9/7] [U_UUU_UUU] A printout of /var/messages is available here: http://pastebin.com/m6499846 as not to make this post any longer... (The array has been down for about a month now. It is my home storage server, non-critical, but I do not have a backup) Also a printout of ?mdadm --detail /dev/md0? is available here: http://pastebin.com/f44b6e069 I have used ?mdadm -v -A -f /dev/md0? to get the array online again, and can read data (intact without errors) from the array, but it soon becomes degraded again. Any help on where to start would be greatly appreciated :) Jack -- 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
