Greetings, Recently I lost 2 disks, out of 5, in my raid 5 array from a bad SATA power cable. It was a Y splitter and it shorted... it was cheap. I was wondering if there was any chance in getting my data back. Of the 2 disks that blew out, one actually had bad/unreadable sectors on the disk and the other disk seems fine. I have cloned both disks with DD to 2 new disks and forced the one disk to clone even with errors. The remaining 3 disks are in tact. The events number on the array for all 5 disks are very close to each other: Events : 201636 Events : 201636 Events : 201636 Events : 201630 Events : 201633 Which from my reading gives me some hope, but I'm not sure. I have not done "recovering a failed software raid" on the wiki yet, the part about using a loop device to protect your array. I thought I would send a message out to this list first before going down that route. I did try to do a mdadm --force --assemble on the array but is says that it only has 3 disks which isn't enough to start the array. I don't want to do anything else before consulting the mailing list first. below I have pasted the mdadm --examine from each member drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -JP /dev/sdb: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 7de100f5:4f30f751:62456293:fe98f735 Name : b1ackb0x:1 Creation Time : Sun Jan 13 00:01:44 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 5 Avail Dev Size : 2930275120 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Array Size : 5860548608 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB) Used Dev Size : 2930274304 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=816 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 71d7c3d7:7b232399:51571715:711da6f6 Update Time : Tue Apr 29 02:49:21 2014 Checksum : cd29f83c - correct Events : 201636 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA.. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdc: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 7de100f5:4f30f751:62456293:fe98f735 Name : b1ackb0x:1 Creation Time : Sun Jan 13 00:01:44 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 5 Avail Dev Size : 2930275120 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Array Size : 5860548608 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB) Used Dev Size : 2930274304 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=816 sectors State : clean Device UUID : b47c32b5:b2f9e81a:37150c33:8e3fa6ca Update Time : Tue Apr 29 02:49:21 2014 Checksum : 1e5353af - correct Events : 201636 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAA.. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sde: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 7de100f5:4f30f751:62456293:fe98f735 Name : b1ackb0x:1 Creation Time : Sun Jan 13 00:01:44 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 5 Avail Dev Size : 2930275120 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Array Size : 5860548608 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB) Used Dev Size : 2930274304 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=816 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 0398da5b:0bcddd81:8f7e77e9:6689ee0c Update Time : Tue Apr 29 02:49:21 2014 Checksum : 24a3f586 - correct Events : 201636 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAA.. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdf: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 7de100f5:4f30f751:62456293:fe98f735 Name : b1ackb0x:1 Creation Time : Sun Jan 13 00:01:44 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 5 Avail Dev Size : 2930275120 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Array Size : 5860548608 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB) Used Dev Size : 2930274304 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=976752816 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 356c6d85:627a994f:753dec0d:db4fa4f2 Update Time : Tue Apr 29 02:37:38 2014 Checksum : 2621f9d5 - correct Events : 201630 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 3 Array State : AAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdg: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 7de100f5:4f30f751:62456293:fe98f735 Name : b1ackb0x:1 Creation Time : Sun Jan 13 00:01:44 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 5 Avail Dev Size : 2930275120 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Array Size : 5860548608 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB) Used Dev Size : 2930274304 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=976752816 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 3dc152d8:832dd43a:a6d638e3:6e12b394 Update Time : Tue Apr 29 02:48:01 2014 Checksum : db9e6008 - correct Events : 201633 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 4 Array State : AAA.A ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) -- 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