On Tuesday December 6, search.lists@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, I have been trying to figure out how to fix my raid system, > SUSE 9.3, linux 2.6.11.4-21.9-default. A hard reset put my raid in > unstable state, almost same errors as > http://sumo.genetics.ucla.edu/pipermail/nelsonlab-dev/2004-August/000150.html > except, sda1 seems to be the problem. > md: kicking non-fresh sda1 from array! > > I did > mdadm -A -f /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 > and then /proc/mdstat shows the 2 disk raid active, but I could not > mount it, mounting /dev/md0 hangs. Later I tried > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 --force /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 > same thing. > > If the raid is ok in degraded (missing 1 drive) mode, shouldn't I be > able to mount it? Yes you should. The fact that you cannot tends to suggest something wrong at a hardware level, but it is hard to be sure. Can you get any kernel messages between assembling the array and the mount hanging? If you could echo t > /proc/sysrq_trigger and capture the output dmesg > /some/file that might also be helpful. 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