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Juri Haberland wrote:
| 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 | This is from memory because I"m at home and the machine is at the office. But it should be close enough.
# raidstart /dev/md0 raidstart: Invalid Argument
if I let the system auto-start it during boot, it looks like this:
Starting Raid Devices: /dev/md0 raidstart: Invalid Argument /dev/md0 is not a RAID0 or LINEAR set
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