On 06/23/2015 05:21 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > Let me know what debugging/details might be interesting to collect. A good sequence of events (from bash history perhaps) with corresponding log messages is always helpful. Your initial report was pretty good. > Based on the Events# being in-sync, I am going to assume that the drives > may be operating in a protected-type mode even if the output doesn’t > concur. I think that's unlikely. In replace, one drive responds for sectors below the progress mark, and the other drive responds for sectors above it. > I can say this state seems to survive reboots. That suggests you give a vanilla (or near-vanilla) kernel a try with one of the various liveCDs that have them. I personally find the one from sysrescuecd.org to be most convenient, but I'm a gentoo guy :-) Otherwise, consider adding a third drive to see if it will rebuild and break the deadlock. I should have to say, but I hope you have a backup :-) Phil -- 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