Hi all, I'm running a Debian system with linux kernel 2.6.8-rc2-mm2, which is pretty bleeding edge. I've been playing around getting a USB2.0/IEEE1394 enclosure working with a 120gb drive. This matches the pair of 120gb drives I'm using to hold my /home and /local volumes. They're /dev/hde and /dev/hdg respectively. The system is setup so that both drives have a single partition which is an LVM type. So both disks are completely mirrored to each other. On top of that, I have several LVM volumes. While mucking around on the system this morning, I noticed that one of the disks on the array was gone. I've been trying to get it back and it's not working at all. I've rebooted multiple times, re-partitioned the bad disk, etc. Nothing. Here's some info: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] md0 : active raid1 hde1[0] 117218176 blocks [2/1] [U_] unused devices: <none> # mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/hdg1 mdadm: hot add failed for /dev/hdg1: Invalid argument And in /var/log/messages, I see the following two lines: Aug 4 10:54:02 jfsnew kernel: md: trying to hot-add unknown-block(34,1) to md0 ... Aug 4 10:54:02 jfsnew kernel: md: error, md_import_device() returned -16 The entries in /dev/hd* look like this: # ls -l /dev/hd* brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 3, 0 Aug 4 10:52 /dev/hda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 33, 0 Aug 4 10:52 /dev/hde brw-rw---- 1 root disk 33, 1 Aug 4 10:52 /dev/hde1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 34, 0 Aug 4 10:52 /dev/hdg brw-rw---- 1 root disk 34, 1 Aug 4 10:52 /dev/hdg1 Here's a list of partitions on the system as well: # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 33 0 117220824 hde 33 1 117218241 hde1 34 0 117220824 hdg 34 1 117218241 hdg1 8 0 17783000 sda 8 1 248976 sda1 8 2 4000185 sda2 8 3 996030 sda3 8 4 1 sda4 8 5 4000153 sda5 8 6 8000338 sda6 8 16 17782540 sdb 8 17 248976 sdb1 8 18 996030 sdb2 8 19 16530885 sdb3 9 0 117218176 md0 8 32 117220824 sdc 8 33 58593496 sdc1 8 34 48828024 sdc2 253 0 53477376 dm-0 253 1 36700160 dm-1 253 2 117218241 dm-2 253 3 248976 dm-3 253 4 996030 dm-4 253 5 16530885 dm-5 253 6 58593496 dm-6 253 7 48828024 dm-7 Anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks, John _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/