> Greetings :)
>
> I have a raid1 and raid5 array. The raid1 is for the OS and has no issues.
>
> The raid5 has been offline since a kernel panic and reboot.
>
> I see this in dmesg
>
> root@cephas:~# dmesg |grep sd6
> softraid0: trying to bring up sd6 degraded
> softraid0: sd6 was not shutdown properly
> softraid0: sd6 is offline, will not be brought online
>
> How do I bring this back online?
OK, I could bring it back online using:
bioctl -C force -v -c 5 -l sd1a,sd2a,sd3a softraid0
I wouldn't have expected it to be the -c flag, because that says a "new"
raid and I'm trying to enable a previously active raid.
Anyway, the above command works. And I have no data loss.
Then I had a single disk that was marked bad, which I put online again
like so:
If sd1a failed, like so:
```
softraid0 1 Degraded 4000797294592 sd6 RAID5
0 Offline 0 1:0.0 noencl <sd1a>
'unknown serial'
1 Online 2000398663680 1:1.0 noencl <sd2a>
'unknown serial'
2 Online 2000398663680 1:2.0 noencl <sd3a>
'unknown serial'
```
You can add it back to the RAID like so: `bioctl -C force -R /dev/sd1a sd6`
```
softraid0 1 Rebuild 4000797294592 sd6 RAID5 0% done
0 Rebuild 2000398663680 1:0.0 noencl <sd1a>
'unknown serial'
1 Online 2000398663680 1:1.0 noencl <sd2a>
'unknown serial'
2 Online 2000398663680 1:2.0 noencl <sd3a>
'unknown serial'
```
