> I'm running 4.9 release with 2x usb hard drives in a softraid raid1 setup. > > Both drives lost power so both volumes are degraded: > > softraid0: trying to bring up sd3 degraded > softraid0: sd3 offline, will not be brought online > > running the following doesn't fix the problem, I just get the same message as > above > bioctl -c 1 -l /dev/sd1a,/dev/sd2a softraid0 > > The data isn't all that important but I would like to get it back - I don't > have a secondary backup. > > Is there anyway to say force one volume back online so I can do a rebuild on > the other?
boot with only one drive connected, it will bring it up degraded. plug in the other drive, then 'bioctl -R /dev/sd3a sd2' (assuming it brings up the degraded array as sd2 with /dev/sd1a, then plugging in the drive makes it /dev/sd3'.
