On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:30:52PM -0600, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mdadm /dev/md3 -a /dev/sdw1
But, I get this error message:
mdadm: hot add failed for /dev/sdw1: No such device
What? We just made the partition on sdw a moment ago in fdisk. It IS there!
I don't believe
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:30:52PM -0600, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mdadm
--assemble /dev/md3 /dev/sdq1 /dev/sdr1 /dev/sds1 /dev/sdt1 /dev/sdu1
/dev/sdv1 /dev/sdw1 /dev/sdx1 /dev/sdy1 /dev/sdz1 /dev/sdaa1 /dev/sdab1
/dev/sdac1 /dev/sdad1 /dev/sdae1 /dev/sdaf1
mdadm:
Am Dienstag, 9. Mai 2006 07:50 schrieb Luca Berra:
you don't give a lot of information about your setup,
You're sure right here, I was a bit off track yesterday from tinkering till
night - info below.
in any case it could be something like udev and the /dev/sdd device node
not being
Something fishy here
Dexter Filmore wrote:
# mdadm -E /dev/sdd
Device /dev/sdd
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid5]
md0 : active raid5 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
732563712 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] []
Components that are all the first partition.
Luca Berra wrote:
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:30:52PM -0600, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mdadm /dev/md3 -a /dev/sdw1
But, I get this error message:
mdadm: hot add failed for /dev/sdw1: No such device
What? We just made the partition on sdw a moment ago in fdisk. It IS
Mystery solved: had to probe another module.
Wait, wait, I can defend myself :)
What led me to believe the controller was autoprobed during boot is that mdadm
complained about *sdd*, but not about sd[abc], hence I assumed [abc] were all
fine.
Plus, I didn't have to probe the module manually
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:16:25AM -0600, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
Luca Berra wrote:
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:30:52PM -0600, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mdadm /dev/md3 -a /dev/sdw1
But, I get this error message:
mdadm: hot add failed for /dev/sdw1: No such device
What? We
Luca Berra wrote:
..
I don't believe you, prove it (/proc/partitions)
I understand. Here we go then. Devices in question bracketed with **:
ok, now i do.
is the /dev/sdw1 device file correctly created?
you could try straceing mdadm to see what happens
what about the other suggestion?