So should I just bite it and build a new array? All the really important stuff is backed up elsewhere, the rest is, well, just crap i got of the Internet, you know... One last thing, I've been thinking about. What copying the superblock from one of the working drives to the defect one and using a hew editor to change the drive number and alignment? Is there much device specific data in the superblock? On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Lasse Jensen <fafler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just keep having bad luck with my RAID 5 array. One drive (out of 4 > WD15EARS drives) was dropped from the array due to powerfailure and > rebuild failed because of bad sectors on another drive. I have been > spending the last few days with ddrescue, copying the data from the > drive with bad sectors to the dropped one. The problem is now that the > drive has bad sectors have spread where the md superblock used to be > on the faulty drive (the very last sectors of the drive, right?), so > how do i force it to assemble without it and with one drive missing? > > What drives are by the way the best consumer grade drives to use for > RAID operation? > > I really, really hope this is the last time i need to ask you guys for help. > > -- > Lasse Jensen (fafler at gmail dot com) > -- 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
