Frank Blendinger wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:31:06AM -0600, Andrew Nelson wrote: > >>>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. > > > That is certainly right. I just wanted to tell you, that your /dev/hde > probably has a serious hardware error, and that you should replace it! > > Of course you can just throw it out, put in a new drive, rebuild the > array with your other drive and the new one, and then resync. This > should work just fine. > > I guess my first answer was quite confusing, sorry. It's absolutely not > necessary to copy the old hde with dd_rescue. > > > Greetings, > Frank Is it possible to assemble the array with just /dev/hdg? I swear I saw an option somewhere that allowed just such a thing but now I can't find it anywhere. //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
