On Saturday July 15, pwaldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a RAID6 array where a disk went bad. I removed the old disk, put in an
> identical one, and repartitioned the new disk. I am now trying to add the
> new partition to the array, but I get this error:
>
> [root@paul ~]# mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/hdd2
> mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/hdd2 as 2: Invalid argument
>
> When I perform that command, /var/log/messages says this:
> Jul 15 20:48:39 paul kernel: md: hdd2 has invalid sb, not importing!
> Jul 15 20:48:39 paul kernel: md: md_import_device returned -22
Rings a bell, but I cannot quite place it..
What version of mdadm are you running? If not 2.5.2, try that.
...
> Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
> 0 3 2 0 active sync /dev/hda2
> 1 22 2 1 active sync /dev/hdc2
> 3157553 0 0 5 removed
^^^^^^^
That looks very odd. If 2.5.2 does that I'll have to look into why.
NeilBrown
> 3 33 2 3 active sync /dev/hde2
> 4 34 2 4 active sync /dev/hdg2
> 5 8 2 5 active sync /dev/sda2
> 6 8 18 6 active sync /dev/sdb2
>
> [root@paul log]# uname -rv
> 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5 #1 Fri Jun 23 12:40:16 EDT 2006
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