I am rebuilding the array now, it will take about 2 hours. The way to do it is to unmount /dev/md0, and then issue mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hd[ac]1 correct? Trying to mark the drive faulty and add it back in (as described in the man page) does not work. But I suppose that couldn't, since it's already faulty. You said it might be the power supply? I have a 350 Watt power supply in there, kind of a cheap one I think. I thought too that connecting 4 drives to it might be a bit much. However, if I do the "unplugged concert" again, and the RAID fails to reconstruct again, what do you suggest? Try another power supply? Give it up, spend $200 more on SCSI drives? I am a bit clueless, I thought I would sleep better when having a RAID1 for my data, so far it's the opposite :( DrTebi --- Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote: > On Thursday November 27, drtebi@drtebi.com wrote: > > > > in my log: > > Nov 28 04:41:44 [kernel] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete > > Error } > > Nov 28 04:41:44 [kernel] md: (skipping faulty > > ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 ) > > Nov 28 04:41:45 [kernel] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete > > Error } > > - Last output repeated 8 times - > > Nov 28 04:41:56 [kernel] md: md_do_sync() got signal ... exiting > > Nov 28 04:41:56 [kernel] raid1: mirror resync was not fully finished, > > restarting next time. > > > > Does this mean one of the drives is bad? > > Well, it means one of your drives return an error, so it was kicked > out of the array. > Whether it is the drive that is bad, or the controller, or the > power-supply, I cannot know. > You could try removing it from the array and putting it back, and let > it rebuild, and see if the problem happens again. > > > > > ------------- > > bully@drtebi: mdadm --query /dev/md0 > > /dev/md0: 114.49GiB raid1 2 devices, 0 spares. Use mdadm --detail for more > > detail. > > /dev/md0: No md super block found, not an md component. > > > > The last message is weird... no md super block? > > That is proper. /dev/md0 is not a component of another md, so it > doesn't have a superblock on it (the individual drives have > superblocks, not the array). > > > > > Thanks, > > DrTebi > > > > P.S.: I don't really like IDE drives :( > > > Me neither. > > NeilBrown > - 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