I'm recovering with a liveUSB of debian, the system this raid is on normally runs fedora 20, I'm not sure what version of mdadm was running on that system. I can find out if I need to. root@debian:~# mdadm --version mdadm - v3.3 - 3rd September 2013 root@debian:~# mdadm -A /dev/md0 --force -vv /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0 mdadm: /dev/sdb is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 2. mdadm: /dev/sdc is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 1. mdadm: /dev/sde is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 0. mdadm: /dev/sdf is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 3. mdadm: /dev/sdg is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 4. mdadm: added /dev/sdc to /dev/md0 as 1 mdadm: added /dev/sdb to /dev/md0 as 2 mdadm: added /dev/sdf to /dev/md0 as 3 (possibly out of date) mdadm: added /dev/sdg to /dev/md0 as 4 (possibly out of date) mdadm: added /dev/sde to /dev/md0 as 0 mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 3 drives - not enough to start the array. Thanks, -JP On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:41 AM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 22:43:01 -0700 Jean-Paul Sergent <jpsergent@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> 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. > > --force --assemble really is what you want. It should work. > What does > mdadm -A /dev/md1 --force -vv /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg > > report?? > What version of mdadm (mdadm -V) do you have? > > NeilBrown > > >> >> 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 > -- 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