On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Adam Luter wrote: > Apparantly it should happen automatically when you put the drive back > in. (And raidstop/start the drive). If not, while the array is > started, run 'raidhotadd' on the drive. It will treat the out of sync > drive as a new spare.. then once it's done syncing the spare it will > treat the spare as if it was the drive missing (that is, it will > upgrade it's status as a spare to a full fledge drive). > > p.s. I'm not an expert, but I did just have to do this on mine (except > the auto part didn't work, so I had to use the hotadd part). > > -Gryn (Adam Luter) > Thanks for the reply Adam, but the 2 good disks are not being recognised, as the superblocks are out of sync. I have approx. 40 GB of data that I would like to recover. I had this problem a while ago, and someone on the list explained how to resync the suberblocks. Unfortunately the e-mail with the information is on the raid array. Hopefully someone can refresh my memory. Cheers Mike Parsons - 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