[mythtv-users] DroboShare and HD Question

[John Drescher]

> A rebuild was now going to take 5 hours.  At 97.5% rebuild, an
> existing drive in the array got a permanent read error, causing the rebuild
> to stop.  There's no data on that sector, but I guess rebuild doesn't care.
> So, out of a 5 disk array, 1 is a new disk, and 1 has a read error during
> rebuild.  I'm SOL.  The array comes up degraded just fine, so I had to get
> my 3TB of data off the array as soon as I could.  I didn't realize the Drobo
> was so slow:  scp file transers over GigE are at 24MB/s.
>

You should still be able to force it to rebuild. If you can figure out
what drive is bad you can duplicate the bad drive (using dd rescue) to
a new drive then rebuild with that.

John