Re: strange RAID5 problem

2006-05-09 Thread Luca Berra
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

Re: strange RAID5 problem

2006-05-09 Thread CaT
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:

Re: slackware -current softraid5 boot problem - additional info

2006-05-09 Thread Dexter Filmore
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

Re: slackware -current softraid5 boot problem - additional info

2006-05-09 Thread Mike Hardy
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.

Re: strange RAID5 problem

2006-05-09 Thread Maurice Hilarius
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

Re: softraid5 boot problem - partly my fault, solved

2006-05-09 Thread Dexter Filmore
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

Re: strange RAID5 problem

2006-05-09 Thread Luca Berra
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

Re: strange RAID5 problem

2006-05-09 Thread Maurice Hilarius
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?