On 9/21/19 2:19 AM, Liviu Petcu wrote:
Yes. Only one of the 2 disks reported by mdadm as failed, is broken. I almost finished making images of all the discs, and for the second "failed" disc ddrescue reported error-free copying. I intend to use the images to recreate the array. I haven't done this before, but I hope I can handle it...
If by recreate you mean run mdadm --create, you really shouldn't start with that - it's easy to get wrong. You can almost certainly use mdadm --assemble --force per https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_Recovery --Sarah