I run raid1 on my root partition /dev/md0. Now I had a bad disk so I had to replace it but did not notice until I got home that I got a SATA instead of a PATA. Since I had a free sata interface I just put in in that. I had no problem adding the disk to the raid1 device that is until I rebooted the computer. both the PATA disk and the SATA disk are detected before md start up the raid but only the PATA disk is activated. So the raid device is always booting in degraded mode. since this is the root disk I use the autodetect feature with partition type fd. Also Something else in the system claim use of the device since I can not add the SATA disk after the system has done a complete boot. I guess it has something to do with device mapper and LVM that I also run on the data disks but I'm not sure. any tip on what it can be?? If I add the SATA disk to md0 early enough in the boot it works but why is it not autodetected ? - 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
