Hi, I think I do something which isn't very clever ... I needed temporarily some disk-space, so I thought: Look at your raid, if it works you can take one disk for a short time (I use raid1). cat /proc/mdstat looks good, so I hotremove one of two partitions. When adding the disk again with raidhotadd /dev/md1 /dev/hdb3 it starts to synchronize but it never stops to synchronize... in messages I found: --------------- Oct 11 17:54:24 hhbgate kernel: md: trying to hot-add hdb3 to md1 ... Oct 11 17:54:24 hhbgate kernel: md: bind<hdb3> Oct 11 17:54:24 hhbgate kernel: RAID1 conf printout: Oct 11 17:54:24 hhbgate kernel: --- wd:1 rd:2 Oct 11 17:54:24 hhbgate kernel: disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:hda3 Oct 11 17:54:24 hhbgate kernel: disk 1, wo:1, o:1, dev:hdb3 Oct 11 17:54:24 hhbgate kernel: ..<6>md: syncing RAID array md1 Oct 11 17:54:24 hhbgate kernel: md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 1000 KB/sec/disc. Oct 11 17:54:24 hhbgate kernel: md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith (but not more than 200 000 KB/sec) for reconstruction. Oct 11 17:54:24 hhbgate kernel: md: using 128k window, over a total of 78482304 blocks. --------------- and later, when I am around 60 % of recovering: Oct 11 18:15:31 hhbgate kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Oct 11 18:15:31 hhbgate kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=97562309, sector=97562224 Oct 11 18:15:31 hhbgate kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Oct 11 18:15:31 hhbgate kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 97562224 Oct 11 18:15:32 hhbgate kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Oct 11 18:15:32 hhbgate kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=97562309, sector=97562232 and so on with some more sectors and later Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 97562304 Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: raid1: hda: unrecoverable I/O read error for block 94440448 Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: md: md1: sync done. Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: RAID1 conf printout: Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: --- wd:1 rd:2 Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:hda3 Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: disk 1, wo:1, o:1, dev:hdb3 Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: RAID1 conf printout: Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: --- wd:1 rd:2 Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:hda3 Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: RAID1 conf printout: Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: --- wd:1 rd:2 Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:hda3 Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: disk 1, wo:1, o:1, dev:hdb3 Oct 11 18:15:44 hhbgate kernel: ..<6>md: syncing RAID array md1 the recovering prozess starts again and again. Any hints what to do? Thanks karsten - 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