On Thursday 12 June 2003 12:06, Nicolas Meaux wrote: > Thanks for you quick respond Neil ;) > > > mdadm -A --force /dev/md2 /dev/sd[a-f] > > So, i type this command : > > # mdadm -A --force /dev/md2 /dev/sd[a-h] > mdadm: /dev/md2 has been started with 7 drives. > > ( i do a [a-h] , because i have 8 scsi disk ) > > I try too mount md2, it work fine, but : > # ls -al > ls: nohup.out: Input/output error > ls: tape.sh: Input/output error > ls: .viminfo: Input/output error > ls: .bash_history: Input/output error > ls: .bashrc~: Input/output error > ls: .xauth: Input/output error > > It seem that there is many errors on the partition. > So, in good newbie, i decided too reboot the machine, but now and since one > hour, he is blocking on these lines : > > [...] > md: updating md2 RAID superblock device > md: sdg [events: 000005a]<6>write sdg's sb offset 35843584 > md: sdh [events: 000005a]<6>write sdh's sb offset 35843584 > md: sde [events: 000005a]<6>write sde's sb offset 35843584 > md: sdd [events: 000005a]<6>write sdd's sb offset 35843584 > Hi, why are you rebooting that often ? Even after sdd failed I wouldn't have rebooted that fast. Just do 'cat /proc/mdstat' and see in what state your raid-array is! Bernd - 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