From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Rowe Subject: Dead RAID5! Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:15:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1183655743.6058.342.camel@kenny> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids OK, I had a two-disk raid5 (to allow expansion) on a Scientific Linux system I couldn't persuade to boot on a very modern kernel. In a nutshell, after some disk failures I have two "working" disks, neither of which will let me start the RAID5 device. What's the best way to try to recover what I can? (One disk fell off RAID and I think the other had some bad sectors.) I have backups of course, but it's a day's work for a number of people. MANY thanks John