Data Storage - Re: no answers on "Recovery on a RAID6/Gentoo/mdadm? Active drive is marked as sp

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Re: no answers on "Recovery on a RAID6/Gentoo/mdadm? Active drive is marked as sp

the wharf rat

2007-10-05, 7:11 pm

In article <1191576534.940625.167700@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
<aurora-glacialis@gmx.de> wrote:
>Hi again.
>
>I still kept my old HDDs in hope someone could help me with the
>problem I was writing about. Is there no hope for the lost data?
>

You could try to reassemble the original array from the working
drives or from your large sata drive partitions via madm --level=faulty.
Frankly, though, this looks like a case of "restore from tape".

Or maybe try

echo "clean" > /sys/block/md0/md/array_state

If /proc/mdstat looks ok you could try and mount /dev/md0.

I don't know if this will work on raid6 or in an array that's
actually damaged and not just confused, and I wouldn't try it on your
only copy of the real data...