Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:09:51PM -0400, Ruslan Sivak wrote: > >> That's possible, but that's no reason to kill my array. I have the >> server in my cube for now while I'm setting it up, but plan to put it in >> a server room later on. I don't, however, want a simple heat issue to >> cause me to loose all my data. Should I try raid6? >> >> > > You shouldn't have lost any data. The two drives failed, the array > became unavailable, but now you should be able to readd the drives. > > You'll want to forcibly force the last drive to have failed to became > avaiable and then rebuild the other one. > > I'm not that confortable with mdadm to give the correct options, but > take this time of testing to try the options listed in the manual page. > > About raid6, it won't help, as long as the drives keep failing. You'd > end with a degraded array that is a drive away of completely failing. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > I tried recreating the array, but it won't mount... Also a bit weird is that I did a SMART short self-test, and one of the drives keeps returning a Read-Failure, but the overall SMART status is passed. Could this be from overheating? Would letting it cool off fix things, or should I call in for warranty? Russ