On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:45:45AM -0600, Monty Charlton wrote: > Hello all, > > I've got a helluva problem and I'm hoping someone here can possibly help > out. > > I've got raid5 (sdb1,sbc1,sdd1) on a partition, and one of the drives > (sdd1) went bad. So I (stupidly) hit the reset button on the computer, > but now the partition won't mount. Raid complains that one drive is bad > (which it is), and that the other is out of sync. See part of dmesg > below... > > Am I hosed? Can I fake out raid by commenting out some of the code that > tries to determine whether or not the drive is fresh? edit /etc/raidtab mark the drive you know as bad as failed-disk instead of raid-disk run mkraid --force on the array read the message you get and do as instructed. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ - 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