Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry

2006-09-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/2/06, Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is existing. But possible it may have legitamatly failed. Here is a log generated today when I tried to add it back into the array. Sep 2 09:11:02 [kernel] end_request: I/O error, dev hdj, sector 586099263 Sep 2 09:11:02 [kernel] Bu

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry

2006-09-02 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
> Ok, maybe stupid questions time. > > /dev/hdj1 does exist, right? yes > Is this the same drive that was once part of the array? It is existing. But possible it may have legitamatly failed. Here is a log generated today when I tried to add it back into the array. Sep 2 09:11:02 [kernel] en

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry

2006-09-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/1/06, Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you remove the faulty device first? yup. Personalities : [raid1] [raid10] [multipath] md4 : active raid1 hdg1[1] 293049600 blocks [2/1] [_U] IIRC, raid devices start > numbering at 0, so it looks like this is trying to add

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
> I should really learn to read bettersorry. No problem :-) > Did you remove the faulty device first? yup. Personalities : [raid1] [raid10] [multipath] md4 : active raid1 hdg1[1] 293049600 blocks [2/1] [_U] IIRC, raid devices start > numbering at 0, so it looks like this is trying t

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
> I think you forgot to specify the mode. From man mdadm: > SYNOPSIS >mdadm [mode] [options] > If a device is given before any options, or if the first option is >--add, --fail, or --remove, then the MANAGE mode is assume. Anything >other than these will CAU

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/1/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where is the invalid argument? Or is this error message you get when it is time to buy a new hard I think you forgot to specify the mode. From man mdadm: I should really learn to read bettersorry. Did you remove the faulty device fi

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/1/06, Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently had a drive failure in with a Raid 1 setup. However, for testing purposes I tried to re-add the drive to the array after I removed it. However I ran into the following error message. ~ # mdadm /dev/md4 --add /dev/hdj1 mdadm

[gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I recently had a drive failure in with a Raid 1 setup. However, for testing purposes I tried to re-add the drive to the array after I removed it. However I ran into the following error message. ~ # mdadm /dev/md4 --add /dev/hdj1 mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/hdj1 as 2: Invalid argument