Hi After 20 months trouble-free Intel IMSM RAID, I had to do a hard reset and the array has failed to start. I don’t know if the failed RAID was the cause of the problems before the reset. The system won’t boot because everything is on the RAID array. Booting from a live Fedora USB shows no sign that the discs are broken and I was able to copy 1 GB off each disc with dd. I hope someone can help me to rescue the array. It is a 4 x 1 TB disc RAID 5 array. The system was running Archlinux and I had patched it a day or 2 before for the first time in a few months, thought it had been rebooted more than once afterwards without incident. The Intel oROM says disc 2 is “Offline Member” and 3 is “Failed Disk”. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology - Option ROM - 11.6.0.1702 RAID Volumes: ID Name Level Strip Size Status Bootable O md0 RAID5(Parity) 128KB 2.6TB Failed No 1 mdl RAID5(Parity) 128KB 94.5GB Failed No Physical Devices: ID Device Model Serial # Size Type/Status(Vol ID) O WDC WD10EZEK-00K WD-ACC1S5684189 931.5GB Member Disk(0,1) 1 SAMSUNG HD103UJ S13PJDAS608384 931.5GB Member Disk(O,1) 2 SAMSUNG HD103SJ SZ46J9GZC04Z67 931.5GB Offline Member 3 SAMSUNG HD103UJ S13PJDAS608386 931.5GB Unknown Disk 4 WDC WD10EZEK-08M WD-ACC3F1681668 931.5GB Non-RAID Disk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2 RAID volumes were both spread across all 4 discs. This is how it looks now: # mdadm -D /dev/md/imsm0 /dev/md/imsm0: Version : imsm Raid Level : container Total Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 UUID : 76cff3f5:1a3a7a83:49fc86a8:84cf6604 Member Arrays : Number Major Minor RaidDevice 0 8 48 - /dev/sdd # # mdadm -D /dev/md/imsm1 /dev/md/imsm1: Version : imsm Raid Level : container Total Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 UUID : e8286680:de9642f4:04200a4a:acbdb566 Member Arrays : Number Major Minor RaidDevice 0 8 16 - /dev/sdb 1 8 32 - /dev/sdc 2 8 0 - /dev/sda # # mdadm --detail-platform Platform : Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager Version : 11.6.0.1702 RAID Levels : raid0 raid1 raid10 raid5 Chunk Sizes : 4k 8k 16k 32k 64k 128k 2TB volumes : supported 2TB disks : supported Max Disks : 6 Max Volumes : 2 per array, 4 per controller I/O Controller : /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2 (SATA) # # mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abcd] /dev/sda: Magic : Intel Raid ISM Cfg Sig. Version : 1.3.00 Orig Family : d12e9b21 Family : d12e9b21 Generation : 00695bbd Attributes : All supported UUID : e8286680:de9642f4:04200a4a:acbdb566 Checksum : 8f6fe1cb correct MPB Sectors : 2 Disks : 4 RAID Devices : 2 Disk01 Serial : WD-WCC1S5684189 State : active Id : 00000000 Usable Size : 1953518862 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) [md0]: UUID : d5bf7ab7:2cda417d:f0c6542f:c77d9289 RAID Level : 5 Members : 4 Slots : [_U_U] Failed disk : 2 This Slot : 1 Array Size : 5662310400 (2700.00 GiB 2899.10 GB) Per Dev Size : 1887436800 (900.00 GiB 966.37 GB) Sector Offset : 0 Num Stripes : 7372800 Chunk Size : 128 KiB Reserved : 0 Migrate State : idle Map State : failed Dirty State : clean [md1]: UUID : 26671da2:0d23f085:3d12dbbe:f63aad5a RAID Level : 5 Members : 4 Slots : [__UU] Failed disk : 0 This Slot : 2 Array Size : 198232064 (94.52 GiB 101.49 GB) Per Dev Size : 66077952 (31.51 GiB 33.83 GB) Sector Offset : 1887440896 Num Stripes : 258117 Chunk Size : 128 KiB Reserved : 0 Migrate State : idle Map State : failed Dirty State : clean Disk00 Serial : PJDWS608386:0:0 State : active Id : ffffffff Usable Size : 1953518862 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Disk02 Serial : 6J9GZC04267:0:0 State : active failed Id : ffffffff Usable Size : 1953518862 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Disk03 Serial : S13PJDWS608384 State : active Id : 00000001 Usable Size : 1953518862 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) /dev/sdb: Magic : Intel Raid ISM Cfg Sig. Version : 1.3.00 Orig Family : d12e9b21 Family : d12e9b21 Generation : 00695bbd Attributes : All supported UUID : e8286680:de9642f4:04200a4a:acbdb566 Checksum : 8f6fe1cb correct MPB Sectors : 2 Disks : 4 RAID Devices : 2 Disk03 Serial : S13PJDWS608384 State : active Id : 00000001 Usable Size : 1953518862 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) [md0]: UUID : d5bf7ab7:2cda417d:f0c6542f:c77d9289 RAID Level : 5 Members : 4 Slots : [_U_U] Failed disk : 2 This Slot : 3 Array Size : 5662310400 (2700.00 GiB 2899.10 GB) Per Dev Size : 1887436800 (900.00 GiB 966.37 GB) Sector Offset : 0 Num Stripes : 7372800 Chunk Size : 128 KiB Reserved : 0 Migrate State : idle Map State : failed Dirty State : clean [md1]: UUID : 26671da2:0d23f085:3d12dbbe:f63aad5a RAID Level : 5 Members : 4 Slots : [__UU] Failed disk : 0 This Slot : 3 Array Size : 198232064 (94.52 GiB 101.49 GB) Per Dev Size : 66077952 (31.51 GiB 33.83 GB) Sector Offset : 1887440896 Num Stripes : 258117 Chunk Size : 128 KiB Reserved : 0 Migrate State : idle Map State : failed Dirty State : clean Disk00 Serial : PJDWS608386:0:0 State : active Id : ffffffff Usable Size : 1953518862 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Disk01 Serial : WD-WCC1S5684189 State : active Id : 00000000 Usable Size : 1953518862 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Disk02 Serial : 6J9GZC04267:0:0 State : active failed Id : ffffffff Usable Size : 1953518862 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) /dev/sdc: Magic : Intel Raid ISM Cfg Sig. Version : 1.3.00 Orig Family : d12e9b21 Family : d12e9b21 Generation : 00695b88 Attributes : All supported UUID : e8286680:de9642f4:04200a4a:acbdb566 Checksum : a72daa29 correct MPB Sectors : 2 Disks : 4 RAID Devices : 2 Disk02 Serial : S246J9GZC04267 State : active Id : 00000002 Usable Size : 1953518862 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) [md0]: UUID : d5bf7ab7:2cda417d:f0c6542f:c77d9289 RAID Level : 5 Members : 4 Slots : [UUUU] Failed disk : none This Slot : 2 Array Size : 5662310400 (2700.00 GiB 2899.10 GB) Per Dev Size : 1887436800 (900.00 GiB 966.37 GB) Sector Offset : 0 Num Stripes : 7372800 Chunk Size : 128 KiB Reserved : 0 Migrate State : idle Map State : normal Dirty State : dirty [md1]: UUID : 26671da2:0d23f085:3d12dbbe:f63aad5a RAID Level : 5 Members : 4 Slots : [UUUU] Failed disk : none This Slot : 0 Array Size : 198232064 (94.52 GiB 101.49 GB) Per Dev Size : 66077952 (31.51 GiB 33.83 GB) Sector Offset : 1887440896 Num Stripes : 258117 Chunk Size : 128 KiB Reserved : 0 Migrate State : idle Map State : normal Dirty State : clean Disk00 Serial : S13PJDWS608386 State : active Id : 00000003 Usable Size : 1953518862 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Disk01 Serial : WD-WCC1S5684189 State : active Id : 00000000 Usable Size : 1953518862 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Disk03 Serial : S13PJDWS608384 State : active Id : 00000001 Usable Size : 1953518862 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) /dev/sdd: Magic : Intel Raid ISM Cfg Sig. Version : 1.0.00 Orig Family : c7e42747 Family : c7e42747 Generation : 00000000 Attributes : All supported UUID : 76cff3f5:1a3a7a83:49fc86a8:84cf6604 Checksum : 4f820c2e correct MPB Sectors : 1 Disks : 1 RAID Devices : 0 Disk00 Serial : S13PJDWS608386 State : Id : 00000003 Usable Size : 1953518862 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) # Thanks. -- 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