Good morning,
I had 2 drives with smart errors and a 3rd with read errors (disk2, disk8 and disk11). I decided to replace two and remove one. I didn't want to lose parity in the event more failed, so I thought shrinking the array may be best. I ordered new drives, pre-clear them, and began the #2 procedure (from the legacy documentation) to shrink the array. Two drives ended up failing, the one being zero'ed (disk 11) and another (disk7). Now I'm faced with decision to continue the shrinking procedure to remove disk 11, while disk7 is emulated OR allow a rebuild although disk2 and disk8 still have smart errors (btw, I've checked/replaced cables, but still have those smart errors). I am looking for advice on a couple fronts. 1) Does the fact that disk 11 failed during zero'ing and continued zero'ing as an emulated drive cause problems continuing with the shrinking procedure and 2) Can I use the new config tool, remove disk 11 and leave emulated disk7 or will the new config tool (keeping assignments for parity and disk7, but not disk11 AND checking the valid parity option) wipe out disk7's emulation?
I hope these question make sense as presented. Thank you for your time !
marlin-diagnostics-20240112-1037.zip