From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sevrin Robstad Subject: RAID 5 crash, is there any way to recover some data ? Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:31:36 +0200 Message-ID: <44A95478.2050004@online.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids I *had* a RAID 5 consisting of 6 x 200GB drives. After a power failure, my motherboard failed and I replaced it with some old crap I had. After some lockups on this platform I suddenly had more than one disk marked as bad. And then, after some googling around - I tried "mdadm --assemble --force" ... It seemed fine when rebuilding, but after some time the hardware failed again.. Now my raid was GONE. I have tried some "mdadm --build" things, but I cannot get any data out of it, it stops on "no Ext3 filesystem found" ... Is there *any* way for me to recover at least some of the data ? Sevrin Robstad, Norway