also sprach Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> [2007.08.21.0003 +0200]:
> Any suggestions or warnings from others so I can make sure this doens't
> happen again are appreciated. Remember, the two drives I've already
> removed that mdadm had said were bad have tested out as fine. I suspect
> it's more an issue with this system losing power and the RAID not being
> unmounted properly, but I'd think it should be able to handle that.
If the RAID was degraded (2/3 drives) *and* the power lost, mdadm
won't assemble it without you forcing it to (see README.recipes).
> [root@archive:root]$ smartctl -l error
>
> bash: smartctl: command not found
>
> Is there a problem with that, or could that be part of the issue?
apt-get install smartmontools
then try again. And enable smartd to check your drives continuously.
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