On Thursday June 24, philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have a drive that failed out: > > scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0, CDB: > Read (10) 00 00 c2 a0 3f 00 00 28 00 > Info fld=0xc2a03f, Current sdf: sense key Medium Error > Additional sense: Read retries exhausted > end_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 12755007 > raid1: Disk failure on sdf1, disabling device. > ^IOperation continuing on 1 devices > raid1: sdf1: rescheduling sector 12754944 > raid1: sdb1: redirecting sector 12754944 to another mirror > > /proc/mdstat shows the drive failed: > > md4 : active raid1 sdf1[2](F) sdb1[0] > 35905152 blocks [2/1] [U_] > > When I try to remove the drive: > > # mdadm /dev/md4 -r /dev/sdf1 > mdadm: hot remove failed for /dev/sdf1: Device or resource busy This fix for this went into Linus' BK tree 20 days ago, and so is in 2.6.7-rc3 and later. NeilBrown http://linux.bkbits.com:8080/linux-2.5/cset@40c2091dDFmX9NP0UWlmCGCZNPsEoA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html