From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Hoeppner Subject: Re: Recovery of failed RAID 6 and LVM Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 03:39:25 -0500 Message-ID: <4E7EE8BD.2090301@hardwarefreak.com> References: <4E7EDE58.3000804@yazzy.org> Reply-To: stan@hardwarefreak.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E7EDE58.3000804@yazzy.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: lists@yazzy.org Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 9/25/2011 2:55 AM, Marcin M. Jessa wrote: > Hi guys. > > > I have a RAID 6 setup with 5 2TB drives on Debian Wheezy [1] & [2]. > Yesterday 3 of the drives failed working leaving the RAID setup broken. What was the hardware event that caused this situation? Did you lose power to, or kick the data cable out of a 3-bay eSATA enclosure? Do you have a bad 3 in 1 hot swap cage? A flaky HBA/driver? You need to identify the cause and fix it permanently or this will likely happen again and again. -- Stan