Le Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:56:33 -0700 vous écriviez: > OK, that's a long tale of woe. Thanks for any advise. oK, so what we'd like to do is get the backup RAID volume back in working order. You said it's made of 2TB Caviar green drives, but didn't mention the RAID controller type... As I understand it, you power-cycled the RAID array, so the cache is gone, whatever have been in it... All arrays I know will happily reassemble a working RAID if you succesfully revive the failed drives. Logically the failed drives are almost certainly not really dead, but in a temporary failure state mode. First, you must check WD support and utilities to see if something may apply to your configuration. Anyway, checking the failed drives' health with the western digital disk utility should allow you to determine if they're toast or not. In the case they're not actually dead, you could try to revive the badblocks with Spinrite (www.grc.com), it saved my life a couple of times, however it's quite risky when used with SMART-tripped drives. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique | Intellique | <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | +33 1 78 94 84 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs