mdadm

The last three nights, one of my USB controllers has gone offline in the middle of the night, knocking 4 of my 8 disks offline. The first two times, I was able to get it working again with mdadm -A /dev/md0 -f /dev/sd[hgeflkji]. I tried that this morning and it's not working. Any ideas...

I have a large Raid6 array built using mdadm with 6 components, each 2TB, making the array size around 8TB. Recently, there was a storm, and after a restart Ubuntu's Disk Utility says the state of the array is "Not running, partially assembled". I tried the following $ sudo mdadm --assemble...

My Snap Server 410 Crashed, and while I have good backups it's probably going to be 48hrs+ to get the data off of the tapes. I've got the arrays built, but I think I'm missing something. cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]...

Hi, I am not able to activate RAID and need help: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : inactive sdd1[7](S) sde1[6](S) sdi1[5](S) sdh1[4](S) sdg1[3](S) sdf1[2](S) sdc1[1](S) 6837319552 blocks # cat /proc/partitions...

Hi there: Thanks for reading this thread and I thank you in advance for any help you can provide. So this is what happened... I noticed that my MDADM RAID 5 array with drives ordered: /dev/sd[EFGHIABCDKJ]1 reported a failed drive -- /dev/sdb1. I stopped the array and ran smartctl -t long...