Hey, I am trying to rebuild a failed raid 5. I have one disk that's bad, and one disk that, in the confusion, has become convinced that it is a spare. I don't know where it got this idea, but I have drive "mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md2 /dev/hda3 /dev/hdc3 /dev/hde3 /dev/hdg3 /dev/hdi3 /dev/hdk3" as well as "mkraid --force /dev/md2" and my raidtab hasn't changed except to state that HDA has failed. Is there anyway for me to force the "spare disk" to reconsider its purpose in life? Which is presently to make my data accessable so I can move to raid 10 or some other more simple raid format. I mean, I am sure it is some bit in the superblock that is miss set, but how do I fix that? Thanks -fro - 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
