On Thursday August 16, denrdc@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello > > During a motherboard upgrade, I did something rather stupid : rewrite grub to > the bootsector of my bootdisk ( or so i thought ), but due to the new board > and thus a new device order I ended up destroying the beginning of 1 disk of > a 6 disk raid5 array. No worries, but after completly zeroing the "bad" disk, > i can't add it anymore. > .... > I get an error, and the following in the kernel log > > md: sde has invalid sb, not importing! > md: md_import_device returned -22 > Very odd.. Please report which kernel version and mdadm version you are using, and the exact sizes of each of the devices in the array (e.g. cat /proc/partitions). Thanks, 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