Hi guys.

I've been having trouble with a four-disk raid5 array, which I now believe were caused by a flaky eSATA cable. The cable has been replaced, and the controller now seems to reliably see all four disks.

In fact I have five disks, and so a partition on the fifth disk acts as a spare. Over the past several days I've been connecting and disconnecting drives in ways that I didn't realise were unreliable (due to the faulty cable).

This has resulted in the md metadata being out of sync on the different partitions. Please could someone provide advice as to how to recover this array (which contains an ext3 filesystem)?


Many thanks!

Jan