Hi, I have a RAID5 array that has died and I need help recovering it. Somehow two of the four partitions in the array have failed. The server was completely dead, and had very little recognizable information on the console before it was rebooted. I believe they were kernel messages, but it wasn't a panic. I'm able to read data from all four disks (using dd) but can't figure out how to try and reassmble it. Here is some information I've obtained by booting from a rescue CDROM and the mdadm.conf from backup. Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] [linear] md1 : inactive sda2[0] sdd2[4](S) sdb2[1] 205820928 blocks super 1.1 md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] 255988 blocks super 1.0 [4/4] [UUUU] # mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/sdd2 mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdd2: Device or resource busy # mdadm --run /dev/md1 mdadm: failed to run array /dev/md1: Input/output error I've tried "--assemble --scan" and it also provides an IO error. mdadm.conf: # mdadm.conf written out by anaconda MAILADDR root AUTO +imsm +1.x -all ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=4 UUID=9406b71d:8024a882:f17932f6:98d4df18 ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid5 num-devices=4 UUID=f5bb8db9:85f66b43:32a8282a:fb664152 Any ideas greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alex -- 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