From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tokarev Subject: Re: 2 partition kicked from 6 raid5 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:32:26 +0400 Message-ID: <431605CA.3010705@tls.msk.ru> References: <20050830181015.GA24181@koli.kando.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20050830181015.GA24181@koli.kando.hu> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Deak Krisztian Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Deak Krisztian wrote: > Hi, > > i have a big problem. A had a sw raid5 array with 6 partition. The array > has been damaged because problems of power connectors. 2 partitions/disks don't work, > because during the time the SATA power connections didn't work. > Some write/read operations where running. Now when i want to > run the array loading the kernel, i get the next message: > > raid5: device sdl1 operational as raid disk 0 > raid5: device sdj1 operational as raid disk 5 > raid5: device sdh1 operational as raid disk 3 > raid5: device sdg1 operational as raid disk 2 > raid5: not enough operational devices for md0 (2/6 failed) Are you using raid autostart (in-kernel auto-activating of raid arrays) or bring it up using mdadm? If the latter, try adding --run option. If the former, your only choice is to use some rescue CD or something, and again, to try this same mdadm --run... Depending on where/how you got to this state, your data may be just fine. /mjt