On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Andrea Ferraris wrote:
>My problem is that /dev/hdc of my PC is broken (the 1st IDE disk of the 2nd
>channel) and I had to replace it with /dev/hde (it is an ATA/66 disk with a
>Promise controller, that can't become /dev/hdc).
>
>Please, if you can, reply also to my address, because I'm not subscribed to the
>list.
>
>The interested lines of my /etc/raidtab (used to create and manage the
>array) are:
>
>nr-raid-disks 3
>nr-spare-disks 0
>device /dev/hda5
>raid-disk 0
>device /dev/hdb5
>raid-disk 1
>device /dev/hdc5
>raid-disk 2
>
>At now I tried (without issue):
>
>1. to change nr-spare-disks substituing 1 to 0
> and adding at the and:
> device /dev/hde5
> spare-disk 0
> At reboot time the system tell something about hde5 having an invalid
> magic superblock.
>2. to substituting - verbatim - /dev/hdc5 with /dev/hde5,
> but didn't work (the system continue to tell that raid 5 isn't
> operational and it works in a degradated way).
>
>hde5 has exactely the same size than hdc5 had and it is of
>partition type fd (Linux RAID autodetect).
>The distribution is Mandrake 7 with raidtools 0.90. and the kernel
>is 2.2.16.
>
>Thx if someone has some hints or idea or pointer to docs to solve my
>problem.
>Please reply also to my address, because I'm not subscribed to the
>list.
>
You might want to run "raidhotadd /dev/md? /dev/hde5"
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Morten B�geskov (email: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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