> I run an 8-disk raid 6 on which sporadically 2 drives dropped out, > that I could just re-add when I zeroed the zuperblock beforehand. > Recently, upon re-adding those 2 drives (after the zero-superblock) a > third drive dropped out after 5-10 minutes of syncing. I then did a > zero-superblock on the third drive and tried to re-add it - which > failed. ... > 10 8 113 - spare /dev/sdh1 > 11 8 1 - spare /dev/sda1 > 12 8 65 - spare /dev/sde1 If you had two drives failing, why didn't you let these spares take over the job? Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. -- 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