[CentOS] Server offline :-( please help to repair software RAID

Alexander Farber wrote:
> Turned out, smartd kept saying, that it had no entries in smartd.conf.
>
> I've copied smartd.rpmnew over smartd.conf, restarted it,
> now I have (in /var/log/messages, date+hostname removed):
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At this point, I'd run the long test on each drive, and (after coming back
an hour or two later, see the results.

        mark "yes, it does take that long"