From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: Help recreating a raid5 Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:34:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4430C206.7070606@dgreaves.com> References: <442F8817.508@dgreaves.com> <17456.33425.813324.99020@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17456.33425.813324.99020@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown wrote: >On Sunday April 2, david@dgreaves.com wrote: > > >>>>From some archive reading I understand that I can recreate the array using >> >> mdadm --create /dev/md1 -l5 -n3 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdb1 missing >> >>but that I need to specify the correct order for the drives. >> >>I've not used --assume-clean, --force or --run; should I? I assume that >>since it's only got 2 of 3 then it won't need the assume-clean. >> >>The detail and dmesg data suggests that the order in the command above >>is correct. >> >>Can anyone confirm this? >> >> > >Yes, that all looks correct. > > Thanks Neil That seemed to work. Now I need to find out if I have bad hardware or if there is something (else) wrong with libata :) David