On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:48:41 -0500 Christian <cjs703@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a 10 disk RAID6 array. I had an issue with a molex connector >> that caused drives to drop from a 5in3 SATA backplane. There wasn't >> any activity occurring on the array during the time, so I think the >> filesystem should be in tact. The issue now is the event counts are >> out of sync, along with the state of each drive. >> >> # mdadm -A /dev/md1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1 >> /dev/sdm1 /dev/sdq1 /dev/sdr1 /dev/sds1 /dev/sdt1 >> mdadm: /dev/md1 assembled from 8 drives - not enough to start the >> array while not clean - consider --force. >> >> # cat /proc/mdstat >> Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] >> md1 : inactive sdt1[1](S) sde1[9](S) sdl1[8](S) sdg1[7](S) sdf1[6](S) >> sdk1[5](S) sdq1[4](S) sds1[3](S) sdr1[2](S) sdm1[0](S) >> 19535134720 blocks >> >> >> # mdadm -Af /dev/md1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1 >> /dev/sdm1 /dev/sdq1 /dev/sdr1 /dev/sds1 /dev/sdt1 >> mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md1: Input/output error > > The array is already in a partially-assembled state. > > mdadm -S /dev/md1 > > before trying to assemble again with -f. > > NeilBrown I should have probably included it but I did stop the array with -S before running -Af. -- 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