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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Multiple disk failure - recover?
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 23:55:09 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: message from Danilo Godec on Wednesday July 10
To: Danilo Godec <danci@agenda.si>
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On Wednesday July 10, danci@agenda.si wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> >  mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdc2
> >
> > Then it will have to use a2 and c2.
> 
> I tried that, but it refused to do it (something about 2/3 drives
> failed)!? Maybe my mdadm version is old (v1.0.0)?

Hmmm. Should work, but might need a "--run" as well...

Can you get me an exact error message, and maybe the output of
 mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abc]2

NeilBrown