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Drive failure(s) in linux mdadm raid array. Help!

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It looks like my system is suffering from some sort of catastrophic failure, and I'm panicking at the moment, not sure what to do. I had a 3 drive raid 10 array. I noticed this morning that I was having trouble accessing the array (all my photos are on there). I checked mdadm and it said that one drive was dropped from the array (drive 2). I think this may have been because the computer was shutdown accidentally (there was a blackout), and the drive was kicked as a result. I tried adding the drive back, and that worked. Then I checked the progress of the rebuild with mdstat, and it is rebuilding at 10 kb/s. Yes. It would take years to rebuild a 3 TB drive at that speed. I check dmseg, and I was getting a bunch of I/O errors for drive 3. It seems that drive 3 has some kind of hardware failure. I checked the drive's health with the disks tool (I think it's from gnome, gnome-disk-tool or something), and it had almost 6000 bad sectors, but apart from that it said it was OK. So now I'm panicking, thinking that the drive 2 was actually still good and now when I readded it, it's resynching, probably destroying the good data it has. I then tried turning off the computer (I read it was save to do so even when mdstat is resyncing). Unfortunately, the shut-off is not working. Pressing "ESC" showed me the terminal and it's displaying a bunch of "print_req_error: I/O error, dev sdd, sector ...." type errors. I don't know what to do. Just wait? It's been going on for 30 minutes like this. Any advice?
Asked by user361233 (71 rep)
Jul 7, 2019, 09:49 PM
Last activity: Jul 8, 2019, 09:16 PM