> On 20 Feb 2017, at 20:16, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If you can get to 35 of 36 original disks, even with scattered errors, > you could complete a check scrub to make 35 good disks. With timeout > mismatch, you'll have to override the kernel timeouts for all devices, > so such a scrub would take a very long time, but would recover everything. Is there a way tell mdadm to use sdk1 as a “active” device? And how can i tell the array that it should not try to recover sdm1 but set it active ? Is there any magic to force the state ? It might not be healthy for the normal use case but might be helpful for me. Martin-- 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