On Mon, June 9, 2008 6:12 pm, Gavin Hamill wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 08:25 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > >> > eddie:~# mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/hde5 >> > mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/hde5 as 3: Invalid argument >> >> Do you get any kernel messages when this fails? >> dmesg | tail > > Yes indeed... > > md: hde5 has invalid sb, not importing! > md: md_import_device returned -22 Thanks. I suspect the partition is slightly too small. Check the sizes in /proc/partitions. hde5 needs to be at least 174851136K. Newer version of mdadm notice this and report a better error message (I think 2.6.3 contains the fix). So: you might need to repartition the drive and make hde5 a little bigger. 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
