Rui Santos wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>> I've now got SUSE 10.2 set up with RAID and LVM on my server.  However,
>> I don't seem to be able to re-add a "failed" drive, without rebooting. 
>> The drives are hot-swapable.  When I use the command mdadm  /dev/md0/
>> -add /dev/sdxx I get a "device busy" error message.  Even removing the
>> drive with the --remove option, before the add command doesn't help.  I
>> still have to reboot to add the drive.  Is there something I'm missing?
> 
> If a drive/partition is marked as "failed", you need to remove it from
> the RAID first with:

Sorry - forgot this:

mdadm --manage --set-faulty /dev/mdx /dev/sdxx

> 
> mdadm --manage --remove /dev/mdx /dev/sdxx
> 
> Then you can add it again with:
> 
> mdadm --manage --add /dev/mdx /dev/sdxx
> 
> Hope it helps.
> 
>> tnx jk
>>
> 

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