From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Lunz Subject: Re: recovery of hosed raid5 array Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:48:27 -0500 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031026194827.GA18591@orr.falooley.org> References: <20031026194051.GA4511@matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031026194051.GA4511@matchmail.com> To: Mike Fedyk Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:40AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > 1. Were they maxtor 160GB 8MB cache drives? Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 30G, model #53073H4, on a Promise 20262 pci ide card luckily enough, I got all my data back. The "dead" drive turned out to work well enough to read most of the data. By some miracle, the portion of the drive with unrecoverable sectors was entirely in the 10% of the disk that wasn't part of the raid partition. > 2. Is there any package that will take one drive in a raid1/5 array > offline, and run badblocks on it? package? That's a pretty short script to write, using mdadm and badblocks. Jason