Problems on reintegrating one disk into raid5-array

2000-07-12 Thread Patrick Scharrenberg
Hi.. due to a system crash one partition of the raid array has an invalid event counter... so my array runs un degraded mode... but how can I integrate it back to the array??? Where does raid store the superblockinfo?? I tried to remove the partition with fdisk, recreatet it, formated it,

Re: Problems on reintegrating one disk into raid5-array

2000-07-12 Thread Tamas Acs
Hi, As far as I know "raidhotadd" is what you need. Tamas. On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Patrick Scharrenberg wrote: Hi.. due to a system crash one partition of the raid array has an invalid event counter... so my array runs un degraded mode... but how can I integrate it back to the array???

Re: Problems on reintegrating one disk into raid5-array

2000-07-12 Thread Anton
I've had this problem. It was due to that disk being damaged. I suggest you do a scan on that disk with the scsi utility of your controller. If it reports bad sectors and such, swap the disk, create the linux raid partition on it and hot swap it in, as described in the HOWTO -- ai