On 10/3/05, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday October 2, hbarta@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I have a 5 disk raid that is currently using only 4 disks. On startup, > > it rejects an apparently good drive with the message that it is > > non-fresh. I don;t understand what non-fresh means nor how to resolve > > this. > > 'non-fresh' means that it doesn't seem to up-to-date with respect to > the other drives in the array. > Use "mdadm --examine /dev/sda1" and compare that with > "mdadm --examine /dev/sdc1" to see what the difference is. It is > probably the Event count. > > To re-incorporate sda1 into the array, use > mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sda1 Yes, thanks. Another list member replied privately and helped me sort this out (except for the --examine part.) It's running on all 5 drives again but I'm still puzzled why the one became non-fresh. I'll have to watch it more closely. thanks, hank -- Beautiful Sunny Winfield, Illinois - 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
