Determining which drive failed in RAID 5 array

Smith, Albert Albert.Smith at genexservices.com
Fri Aug 5 20:28:02 UTC 2005



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> I've got a RAID 5 array with four drives in it.  One of them 
> is failed, I look at /proc/mdstat and it shows me 4/3 [UUU_]. 
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> How do I know which one is faied???
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It looks like the last device that was entered into your raid
configuration. 

When you do an mdadm --query what does it come back with?

Albert Smith
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT
Genex Services
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