Re: raid5 stuck in degraded, inactive and dirty mode

2008-01-08 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday January 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'd provide data dumps of --examine and friends but I'm in a situation > where transferring the data would be a right pain. I'll do it if need > be, though. > > So, what can I do? Well, providing the output of "--examine" would help a lot. B

raid5 stuck in degraded, inactive and dirty mode

2008-01-08 Thread CaT
Hi, I've got a 4 disk RAID5 array that had one of the disks die. The hassle is that the death was not graceful and triggered a bug in the nforce4 chipset that wound up freezing the northbridge and hence the pc. This has left the array in a degraded state where I cannot add the swanky new HD to the

Re: Raid 1, can't get the second disk added back in.

2008-01-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Neil Brown wrote: On Monday January 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is not raid, or at least not obviously raid related. The problem is that the whole disk, /dev/hdb is unavailable. Maybe check /sys/block/hdb/holders ? lsof /dev/hdb ? good luck :-) losetup -a may help, lsof

Re: Raid 1, new disk can't be added after replacing faulty disk

2008-01-08 Thread Radu Rendec
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 15:35 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday January 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2008 6:44 AM, Radu Rendec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm experiencing trouble when trying to add a new disk to a raid 1 array > > > after having replaced a faulty disk. > > I can

Re: Raid 1, new disk can't be added after replacing faulty disk

2008-01-08 Thread Radu Rendec
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 15:35 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday January 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Looks like you are running into the issue described here: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=119892098129022&w=2 Dan, thanks for your quick reply. It's exactly the same issue: the array was c

Raid level 5 not permitted with --build

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Browning
Why do I get the following error when I attempt to 'mdadm --build' a software RAID 5 array that was created in Windows 2003 using Dynamic Disks (LDM)? Raid level 5 not permitted with --build RAID-0 arrays work great, and some of the kernel documentation implies that RAID-5 should work too: Do