I am not experiencing this issue then. My devices are in /dev after the raid drop out. I can use smart scanning on them without issue also. Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 05:08:23AM -0500, Andrew Dunn wrote: > > >> does it momentarily offline the disks? like they re-appear in /dev >> within moments? That would be similar behavior to what I am >> experiencing, the disks drop from the array, but they are in /dev by the >> time I get a chance to see them. >> > > No, either the disks need to be physically removed and re-inserted, or > the machine needs to be rebooted. > > Gabor > > -- Andrew Dunn http://agdunn.net -- 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