Re: RAID 5 array recovery - two drives errors in external enclosure

["Majed B." <majedb@gmail.com>]

If you're going to take all your data out, I would suggest you do a
clean start and zero out all the disks to force the remapping of bad
sectors, then run smartctl -t offline on all disks and after it's done
(it will take A LONG time), create your filesystem on an array and put
back your data.

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Tim Bostrom <tbostrom@gmail.com> wrote:
> THANK YOU!
>
> To all of you who helped with advice.  I finally waded through 70MB of
> log files from the last 6 months on my server and finally figured out
> a way to get the correct order.  I had a few logs of 'fdisk -l" which
> contained the Disk Identifier.  I matched that up against where I had
> the drives in the enclosure and the ata.#'s.   I came up with a short
> list of drive letter ordering and just kept trying them with four
> drives at a time moving the _missing_ drive around.  Finally, it came
> up.
>
> I'm now up with four drives and RO filesystem.  I'm going to try and
> backup as much as possible off-disk.  Then I'm thinking that I need to
> add the "missing" drive back in and re-build.
>
> Correct?
>
> Thank you again.
>
> Tim
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       Majed B.
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