I already tried that: root@Torero-2:~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid5] md0 : active raid5 sdg1[6] sdf1[5] sde1[4] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] sda1[0] 1367507456 blocks level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [8/7] [UUUUUUU_] unused devices: <none> root@Torero-2:~ # mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/sdh1 mdadm: hot remove failed for /dev/sdh1: No such device or address root@Torero-2:~ # mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdh1 mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdh1: Device or resource busy root@Torero-2:~ # With no luck :( Paco. > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Neil Brown [mailto:neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Enviado el: lunes, 18 de julio de 2005 0:11 > Para: Francisco Zafra > CC: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Asunto: Re: Recovery raid5 after sata cable failure. > > On Sunday July 17, fzafra@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have raid5 array working without problem for some > months. A SATA > > cable failed and de raid5 works fine keeping the superblock > > persistent, but now, I can't get the old device inserted > into the array. > ... > > > > And I try to re-add the old disk in this way: > > > > root@Torero-2:/mnt/raid5 # mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdh1 > > mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdh1: Device or resource busy > > > > What is wrong? What I am doing bad? Sdh1 is absolutely > unused, so I > > don't understand the error "resource busy" > > Well, it definitely is busy... > > Maybe it is still part of md0, but marked as 'faulty'. > If so (cat /proc/mdstat would tell you) you need to remove it first. > mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/sdh1 > mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdh1 > > NeilBrown > - 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