Here's the story so far...
I bought 4 1.5TB seagates for a raid5 to replace my current setup, which is a linux softraid. I used the Ubuntu installer to partition and set up the drives (which I greatly regret), then when it was at the formatting stage it seemed to hang (almost 2 hours with no progress). So like an idiot I hit the power button because I didn't want to be without my computer any longer.
When I came back to give it a proper go with mdadm on the command line, I noticed that one of the drives was already marked as missing and it was recovering the array. Then about 20% into recovery, another of the drives was marked as failed and it stopped.
Ever since then I can't do anything with this £460 pile of bricks. I try to fdisk them but it won't have it (under linux). Just says they can't be read.
One of them fails the short test in seatools, which is worrying.
Would it be worth zeroing them and wiping the MBR or are they just dead?
I bought 4 1.5TB seagates for a raid5 to replace my current setup, which is a linux softraid. I used the Ubuntu installer to partition and set up the drives (which I greatly regret), then when it was at the formatting stage it seemed to hang (almost 2 hours with no progress). So like an idiot I hit the power button because I didn't want to be without my computer any longer.
When I came back to give it a proper go with mdadm on the command line, I noticed that one of the drives was already marked as missing and it was recovering the array. Then about 20% into recovery, another of the drives was marked as failed and it stopped.
Ever since then I can't do anything with this £460 pile of bricks. I try to fdisk them but it won't have it (under linux). Just says they can't be read.
One of them fails the short test in seatools, which is worrying.
Would it be worth zeroing them and wiping the MBR or are they just dead?
