On Sunday 04 July 2004 22:51, Robin Bowes wrote: > On Sun, July 4, 2004 20:50, Robin Bowes said: > Unfortunately, I now see this: > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > 0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2 > 1 0 0 -1 removed > 2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 > 3 8 50 3 active sync /dev/sdd2 > 4 8 66 4 active sync /dev/sde2 > 5 0 0 -1 removed > 6 8 82 5 spare /dev/sdf2 > 7 8 18 -1 faulty /dev/sdb2 > UUID : 2464f7cb:7f57ffdb:fe2dcd80:fc896946 > Events : 0.819771 This is weird, if you ask me. When sdb was set faulty, the spare sdf should have kicked in, and should now be syncing. In your previous mail, you mentioned you did not expect there to be a spare. And I notice the missing (removed) device number 5. So something went wrong, the spare was unwanted according to you, and is not doing what it's supposed to do anyway. Maybe someting is botched in the config...? I'm not exactly sure where the fault lies, though. Apart from that, yes, sdb sure sounds like it's broken... Maarten -- When I answered where I wanted to go today, they just hung up -- Unknown - 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