I have a software RAID 5 array consisting of 3 1.5 tb drives. A couple of days ago the array went offline. I turned the server off to investigate and noticed one of the SATA power connectors had fallen out of the drive. I rebooted and tried to bring the array back up with mdadm -Af -vv /dev/md0 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd It brought the array back with sdc and sdd, sdb being the one where the connector fell out. I used mdadm -a /dev/md0 /dev/sdb to re-add sdb to the array and it started rebuilding. But sdc have bad blocks and both sdb and sdc get offlined at some point in (atleast 35% into) the process. mdadm --examine /dev/sdb told me the drive had been offlined for 5 days and i think the reason the array crashed was due to the bad blocks on sdc, not sdb loosing power. How do i proceed from here? On which device should i run badblocks? The raw device or the array? I have a encrypted LVM container and a ext4 filesystem on top of the array. -- Lasse Jensen (fafler at gmail dot com) -- 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
