On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:34, David M. Strang wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael Tokarev > To: David M. Strang > Cc: Linux RAID > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 5:29 PM > Subject: Re: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device > > Michael Tokarev wrote: > > David M. Strang wrote: > > [] > > > > > Is there something a little deeper to this error message? > > > > > > Aug 31 04:48:15 abyss kernel: scsi2 (12:0): rejecting I/O to offline > > > device > > > Aug 31 04:48:15 abyss kernel: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling > > > device. > > > > If you reread my message, I hope you will find a bit of clue: > > > > echo y > /sys/block/sdm/device/delete > > (or something like that anyway.) > > > > That's needed for exactly this purpose: to remove a device which is > > marked 'offline' in the kernel somewhere - to be able to re-add it > > later - either with this script or just doing that magic add-single-device > > command manually. > > I should have listened sooner; I wasn't able to follow the paths in the > re-add command, so I didn't do the delete. > > I did the delete (the above syntax is correct) -- ran the rescan script, it > added it back - and the device is accessable again. > > Thank you Michael & Forrest. I just noticed that in /sys/block/sda/device/, along with the delete file, there is a rescan file. I think that this is what I was thinking of with the 2.6 kernel. Forrest - 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
