We have a raid6 array with 3 "failed" discs. However, smart status for all drives is ok. I'm also not seeing any io errors in my logs (except when the discs were initially dropped). I also tried reading raw data from one of the failed drives, using dd. I was able to get data, still no io errors. We're thinking about trying to re-add or assemble --force, in hopes of getting it up to recover some data (did I mention the users put important data on here knowing it was not backed up). Our main concern is that we add the discs and the system start rebuilding. Any suggestions on how we should proceed? Thanks, Larry Owen ################### MDADM OUTPUT ############################## mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Tue Feb 1 16:25:03 2011 Raid Level : raid6 Used Dev Size : 1953512960 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Raid Devices : 22 Total Devices : 21 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Feb 22 23:42:11 2012 State : active, FAILED, Not Started Active Devices : 19 Working Devices : 21 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 2 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : kddm-nas:0 (local to host kddm-nas) UUID : 9fc31e38:7723974a:1f37af62:5a75ec91 Events : 5412 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 16 0 active sync /dev/sdb 1 8 32 1 active sync /dev/sdc 2 8 48 2 active sync /dev/sdd 3 8 64 3 active sync /dev/sde 4 8 80 4 active sync /dev/sdf 5 8 96 5 active sync /dev/sdg 6 8 112 6 active sync /dev/sdh 7 0 0 7 removed 8 8 144 8 active sync /dev/sdj 9 8 160 9 active sync /dev/sdk 10 8 176 10 active sync /dev/sdl 11 0 0 11 removed 12 8 208 12 active sync /dev/sdn 13 8 224 13 active sync /dev/sdo 14 8 240 14 active sync /dev/sdp 15 0 0 15 removed 16 65 16 16 active sync /dev/sdr 17 65 32 17 active sync /dev/sds 18 65 48 18 active sync /dev/sdt 19 65 64 19 active sync /dev/sdu 20 65 80 20 active sync /dev/sdv 21 65 96 21 active sync /dev/sdw 22 65 112 - spare /dev/sdx 23 65 128 - spare /dev/sdy -- 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