Linux yeti 2.4.19-pre2-ac3 #1 SMP Sat Mar 9 06:44:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown Removed a SCSI chassis that was sda,sdb,sdc. So now my sdd thru sdp are now sda thru sdm. The only thing that looks suspicicious to me is the "this" entry from examine below. HELP!!! mdadm - v0.7.1 - 8 March 2002 mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md6: Invalid argument With verbose it looks like it's detecting everything OK: mdadm: /dev/sdm1 is identified as a member of /dev/md6, slot 12. mdadm: /dev/sdl1 is identified as a member of /dev/md6, slot 11. mdadm: /dev/sdk1 is identified as a member of /dev/md6, slot 10. mdadm: /dev/sdj1 is identified as a member of /dev/md6, slot 9. mdadm: /dev/sdi1 is identified as a member of /dev/md6, slot 8. mdadm: /dev/sdh1 is identified as a member of /dev/md6, slot 7. mdadm: /dev/sdg1 is identified as a member of /dev/md6, slot 6. mdadm: /dev/sdf1 is identified as a member of /dev/md6, slot 5. mdadm: /dev/sde1 is identified as a member of /dev/md6, slot 4. mdadm: /dev/sdd1 is identified as a member of /dev/md6, slot 3. mdadm: /dev/sdc1 is identified as a member of /dev/md6, slot 2. mdadm: /dev/sdb1 is identified as a member of /dev/md6, slot 1. mdadm: /dev/sda1 is identified as a member of /dev/md6, slot 0. mdadm: added /dev/sdb1 to /dev/md6 as 1 mdadm: added /dev/sdc1 to /dev/md6 as 2 mdadm: added /dev/sdd1 to /dev/md6 as 3 mdadm: added /dev/sde1 to /dev/md6 as 4 mdadm: added /dev/sdf1 to /dev/md6 as 5 mdadm: added /dev/sdg1 to /dev/md6 as 6 mdadm: added /dev/sdh1 to /dev/md6 as 7 mdadm: added /dev/sdi1 to /dev/md6 as 8 mdadm: added /dev/sdj1 to /dev/md6 as 9 mdadm: added /dev/sdk1 to /dev/md6 as 10 mdadm: added /dev/sdl1 to /dev/md6 as 11 mdadm: added /dev/sdm1 to /dev/md6 as 12 mdadm: added /dev/sda1 to /dev/md6 as 0 mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md6: Invalid argument mdadm --examine /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : 9204612d:c160f9bc:24b708fe:214a3307 Creation Time : Sun Mar 10 05:19:28 2002 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 177293184 (169.07 GiB 181.54 GB) Raid Disks : 12 Total Disks : 14 Preferred Minor : 6 Update Time : Mon Mar 18 07:27:37 2002 State : clean, no-errors Active Drives : 12 Working Drives : 13 Failed Drives : 1 Spare Drives : 1 Checksum : c646452e - correct Events : 0.6 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Number Major Minor RaidDisk State this 0 8 49 0 active sync /dev/sdd1 0 0 8 193 0 active sync /dev/sdm1 1 1 8 177 1 active sync /dev/sdl1 2 2 8 161 2 active sync /dev/sdk1 3 3 8 145 3 active sync /dev/sdj1 4 4 8 129 4 active sync /dev/sdi1 5 5 8 113 5 active sync /dev/sdh1 6 6 8 97 6 active sync /dev/sdg1 7 7 8 81 7 active sync /dev/sdf1 8 8 8 65 8 active sync /dev/sde1 9 9 8 49 9 active sync /dev/sdd1 10 10 8 33 10 active sync /dev/sdc1 11 11 8 17 11 active sync /dev/sdb1 12 12 8 1 12 active sync /dev/sda1 ________________________________________ Michael D. Black Principal Engineer mblack@csihq.com 321-676-2923,x203 http://www.csihq.com Computer Science Innovations http://www.csihq.com/~mike My home page FAX 321-676-2355 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html