Dan Egli <dan@eglifamily.dnsalias.net> wrote: > I have a machine with a 3 disk raid 5 set. One of the disks has > developed bad sectors in the parity block (I'm assuming it is in the > block because badblocks /dev/hdb shows bad areas, badblocks /dev/md0 > does not), which causes it to randomly get kicked out of the set. I got > a drive to replace it with today. It's not the exact same model, but > it's the same physical dimentions (C/H/S & capasity are identical). It's > just a little faster than the others, with a little more cache on the > drive. But when I repalce the bad drive with the good drive, I get > invalid arguments when trying to bring up the array. I don't get it. > There is a perfectly valid linux partition on the drive, /dev/hdb1 which > meeds the same specs as /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdd1, but replacing hdb with > a drive showing no bad blocks won't work. What commands do you exactly type and what error messages do you exactly get? Juri -- Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com> - 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
