Re: recovery of hosed raid5 array

[linux-raid@ied.com]

 Hi,

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Jason Lunz wrote:

> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:52:40 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>
> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: recovery of hosed raid5 array
> 
[...]
> Once the rebuild started, I noticed an email from smartd, saying that
> the _other_ drive on the Promise controller (/dev/hde) had had errors.
> So I foolishly checked it out with smartctl,

  Can you please share with us newbies why using "smartctl" 
in such situation is foolish, so we don't make the same 
mistake ?

  Thanks.

    John


[...]
> at which point everything
> went to hell. /dev/hde now clicks repeatedly and refuses to work for
> more than a minute or so, while /dev/hdg is partially destroyed from
> being re-added. The rebuild was 3-4% complete when hde died.


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