From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "fibreraid@gmail.com" Subject: 6-drive RAID 10 failed, cannot reactivate, need help Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 11:17:10 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi All, I have an Ubuntu Hardy 64-bit system with mdadm 2.6.9. I have a 6-drive RAID 10 named md1. Unfortunately, there was some power outage and when the system came back up, it showed 2 drives as failed and 4 as active. I removed the two failed drives from the array using -r, and then added them back in using --add and --force. The array will not rebuild though. It simply shows now these two drives as spares. I doubt the data is actually lost since it was a sudden outage. What can I do from here to get mdadm to activate this array and kick off rebuild if needed? I'm really stuck. Thanks in advance for any help. Best regards, Tommy