If it's a true RAID 5 device it should have an automatic recovery mode.
That is it should take the redundant data from the remaining 2 disks and
rebuild the 3rd disk in place.

-Alex


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"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."   - Anonymous


On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Ed Robbins wrote:

> Hey everyone, I have a RAID 5 device built between 3 drives and one of
> the drives failed.  How do I get the kernel to rebuild the stripe on
> that drive?  I'm using persistant superblocks for the autodetection and
> the only way I see to do it is by running mkraid, but it appears that
> this will destroy the data that's already there.  Any info would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Ed Robbins
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