Nigel Kendrick spake the following on 10/6/2006 3:41 AM:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Scott Silva
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:57 PM
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [CentOS] Re: Cannot re-make a software raid pair
>
> Nigel Kendrick spake the following on 10/5/2006 3:48 PM:
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Scott Silva
>> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:15 PM
>> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [CentOS] Re: Cannot re-make a software raid pair
>>
>> Nigel Kendrick spake the following on 10/5/2006 12:45 PM:
>>> Apologies if you get this twice - the first one didn't seem to make it...
>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> I have just replaced a faulty Max...woah, wait...this one's a
>>> Seagate... IDE hard disk but I cannot remake the software raid pair.
>>>
> [SNIP]
>
> I know this is a real basic question, but did you fail then remove the old
> drive first?
>
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> Yes I did, but half the problem is/may be that the faulty drive is not even
> 'seen' by the server and so software RAID takes it out of the mirrored
> pairing on boot and I am pretty sure that when I 'failed' it it threw an
> error that the drive wasn't there anyway. I will try again and also see if I
> can get the drive recognised so I can 'fail' it.
>
> Thanks again for the feedback
>
> Nigel
I think you can add a--force to the remove command. Otherwise the drive is
still included in the array in the metadata on the good drive.
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