-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I just want some tips on howto get two broken raid5 running again. It contains of 4 drives, one was thrown out on saturday evening, and the second drive threw read/write errors before I could replace the first one. Now I got all four drives running again, looks like some controller/cable problem. Changed them. But mdadm tells me, only 2 of 4 are available and could not start raid: md2 : inactive sdh2[0](S) sdi2[4](S) sdf2[6](S) sdj2[5](S) 4251770144 blocks super 1.2 md1 : inactive sdh1[0](S) sdi1[4](S) sdf1[6](S) sdj1[5](S) 2097147904 blocks super 1.2 mdadm -E tells me e.g. for md1: /dev/sdh1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : a503cea9:eb613db1:c8909233:fd5415ce Name : debian:1 (local to host debian) Creation Time : Sat Feb 11 13:39:46 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 1048573952 (500.00 GiB 536.87 GB) Array Size : 3145720320 (1500.00 GiB 1610.61 GB) Used Dev Size : 1048573440 (500.00 GiB 536.87 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 710a2926:640bc675:7b5fe308:861d1883 Update Time : Sun May 6 13:57:22 2012 Checksum : e387e748 - correct Events : 206286 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AA.. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdf1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : a503cea9:eb613db1:c8909233:fd5415ce Name : debian:1 (local to host debian) Creation Time : Sat Feb 11 13:39:46 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 1048573952 (500.00 GiB 536.87 GB) Array Size : 3145720320 (1500.00 GiB 1610.61 GB) Used Dev Size : 1048573440 (500.00 GiB 536.87 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : f53b097c:9762f2a4:f2af9011:3fa7ced7 Update Time : Sun May 6 13:38:26 2012 Checksum : c5f745bd - correct Events : 206273 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdi1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : a503cea9:eb613db1:c8909233:fd5415ce Name : debian:1 (local to host debian) Creation Time : Sat Feb 11 13:39:46 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 1048573952 (500.00 GiB 536.87 GB) Array Size : 3145720320 (1500.00 GiB 1610.61 GB) Used Dev Size : 1048573440 (500.00 GiB 536.87 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 79eb5c0c:db73e2f8:21d9b7f8:97936da4 Update Time : Sun May 6 01:32:35 2012 Checksum : 5dff4e2a - correct Events : 197114 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Device Role : Active device 3 Array State : AAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdj1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : a503cea9:eb613db1:c8909233:fd5415ce Name : debian:1 (local to host debian) Creation Time : Sat Feb 11 13:39:46 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 1048573952 (500.00 GiB 536.87 GB) Array Size : 3145720320 (1500.00 GiB 1610.61 GB) Used Dev Size : 1048573440 (500.00 GiB 536.87 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e8055bca:0f3c9b54:421bc2c2:4a72359b Update Time : Sun May 6 13:57:22 2012 Checksum : 388b23fc - correct Events : 206286 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AA.. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) So all 4 disks see some diff state. Any chance on getting raid5 running again and read some data from it? Does the mdadm -C --assume-clean option help me in that case anyhow? Thank you! MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+rdzgACgkQmWhuE0qbFyMvtgCfaoUiyHj2qFEvaCgo+azZoo3S guUAnR+s0jZvyc2XL5HItCbT+81pLjwe =kT0C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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