On Thursday July 25, roy@karlsbakk.net wrote:
> hi all
>
> What is there to do when the following happens:
>
> a 16 drive RAID fails, giving me an error message telling 4 drives have gone
> dead. In fact only one has.
>
> How can I hack the superblock on the reminding disks to bring them "up", so
> the kernel can start using the spare?
Get mdadm
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
read man page, particular in reference to --assemble with --force
Use mdadm to re-assemble the array.
NeilBrown
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