On Thursday June 19, jbuckingham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have also done > mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdb5 > and this results in a recovery... > > nas:~ # cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] > md0 : active raid5 sdb5[4] sda5[0] sdd5[3] sdc5[2] > 733142016 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [U_UU] > [=>...................] recovery = 7.3% (17900780/244380672) finish=174.1min speed=21666K/sec > > unused devices: <none> > > Which I've been through before, but still ends up as a spare. That suggests that it hits some IO error during recovery and aborts. Are there any kernel log messages during the time that it is recovering? 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