I woke up this morning to my pc not booting saying that my raid was in a degraded state. I looked at the raid wiki and it told me to stop what I was doing and mail the linux-raid list before doing anything hasty. Here's all the info that I could find out about it. Any help would be appreciated. I am running Ubuntu 12.04 mdadm - v3.2.5 - 18th May 2012 The drive in question is /dev/sdb1 on my system. I tried to look at it via fdisk but it hangs up. What should my first steps to figure out if this drive is bad and if so replace it. Thanks. sburke@ht-pc:/tmp/logs$ sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md0 [sudo] password for sburke: /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Fri Dec 13 01:18:13 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 3906763776 (3725.78 GiB 4000.53 GB) Used Dev Size : 1953381888 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Nov 20 01:16:00 2014 State : clean, degraded Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : ht-pc:0 (local to host ht-pc) UUID : 508cb42f:d2c1ea9c:e62b4121:c3d9cbc3 Events : 140 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 0 0 0 removed 1 8 33 1 active sync /dev/sdc1 3 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 sburke@ht-pc:/tmp/logs$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : active raid5 sde1[3] sdc1[1] 3906763776 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/2] [_UU] unused devices: <none> syslog Nov 20 01:14:53 ht-pc kernel: [ 2.465076] res 41/40:08:09:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> Nov 20 01:14:53 ht-pc kernel: [ 2.465078] ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Nov 20 01:14:53 ht-pc kernel: [ 2.465079] ata2.00: error: { UNC } Nov 20 01:14:53 ht-pc kernel: [ 2.484536] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Nov 20 01:14:53 ht-pc kernel: [ 2.484543] ata2: EH complete Nov 20 01:14:53 ht-pc kernel: [ 3.131754] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x40 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Nov 20 01:14:53 ht-pc kernel: [ 3.131756] ata2.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 Nov 20 01:14:53 ht-pc kernel: [ 3.131758] ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED Nov 20 01:14:53 ht-pc kernel: [ 3.131762] ata2.00: cmd 60/08:30:08:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 6 ncq 4096 in Nov 20 01:14:53 ht-pc kernel: [ 3.131763] res 41/40:08:09:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> -- Steve www.stayathomedevs.com Game Data Editor Unity Plugin -- 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