Frank Blendinger wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:15:27AM -0600, Andrew Nelson wrote: > >>Feb 14 21:58:36 localhost kernel: hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 >>Feb 14 21:58:46 localhost kernel: hde: DMA timeout error >>Feb 14 21:58:46 localhost kernel: hde: dma timeout error: status=0x51 { DriveRea >>dy SeekComplete Error } >>Feb 14 21:58:46 localhost kernel: hde: dma timeout error: error=0x40 { Uncorrect >>ableError }, LBAsect=1594001, high=0, low=1594001, sector=1593535 >>Feb 14 21:58:46 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 159353 >>5 >> >>Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? > > > It's probably not your fault - blame /dev/hde! This sounds like a bad > error on the disk - you should really get a new one, and try to copy > /dev/hde to the new disk (with dd_rescue for example). This _might_ save > the data. > > Then you can try to create the array with the new disk and hope that > it will work. > I thought the whole idea of a raid 1 was that if one drive went bad I could just plug a new drive in and the raid would rebuild without problems. What have I done wrong so that this isn't possible? //andy - 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