If you're going to take all your data out, I would suggest you do a clean start and zero out all the disks to force the remapping of bad sectors, then run smartctl -t offline on all disks and after it's done (it will take A LONG time), create your filesystem on an array and put back your data. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Tim Bostrom <tbostrom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > THANK YOU! > > To all of you who helped with advice. I finally waded through 70MB of > log files from the last 6 months on my server and finally figured out > a way to get the correct order. I had a few logs of 'fdisk -l" which > contained the Disk Identifier. I matched that up against where I had > the drives in the enclosure and the ata.#'s. I came up with a short > list of drive letter ordering and just kept trying them with four > drives at a time moving the _missing_ drive around. Finally, it came > up. > > I'm now up with four drives and RO filesystem. I'm going to try and > backup as much as possible off-disk. Then I'm thinking that I need to > add the "missing" drive back in and re-build. > > Correct? > > Thank you again. > > Tim -- Majed B. -- 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