Raid 5 rebuilding epic fail

Someone has asked me to rebuild a faulty raid 5 on a 3ware raid controller. I have 3 drives, all of them is 160 GB. I've gone through the steps, ie selected the degraded array unit, and then gone over to "Rebuild Array", and inplace of "Degraded" it now says "REBUILDING (after F8)".

I hit F8, and it attempts to load the OS, but then it fails a disk check at 57.6%. Any ideas?

OS is debian by the way.

Solution 1:

Doesn't sound good...You can try ripping the "rebuilding" drive out, on the chance that you just got a DOA drive, but chances are it was one of the others that failed. Rebuilding a failed drive is a common source of failure with raids...It's an intensive process.

I once had a 20 drive array fail one drive after another as the array was being rebuilt; when the smoke cleared I'd replaced 18 drives because they warned of failure, and 2 others just because I didn't trust 'em (This is why you never buy 20 drives from the same production group).