Re: will mdadm work with a raid created using raidtools

[Andrew Nelson <freeandy@gmail.com>]

Frank Blendinger wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:31:06AM -0600, Andrew Nelson wrote:
> 
>>>It's probably not your fault - blame /dev/hde! This sounds like a bad
>>>error on the disk - you should really get a new one, and try to copy
>>>/dev/hde to the new disk (with dd_rescue for example). This _might_ save
>>>the data.
>>>
>>>Then you can try to create the array with the new disk and hope that
>>>it will work.
>>
>>
>>I thought the whole idea of a raid 1 was that if one drive went bad I could just
>>plug a new drive in and the raid would rebuild without problems.
> 
> 
> That is certainly right. I just wanted to tell you, that your /dev/hde
> probably has a serious hardware error, and that you should replace it!
> 
> Of course you can just throw it out, put in a new drive, rebuild the
> array with your other drive and the new one, and then resync. This
> should work just fine.
> 
> I guess my first answer was quite confusing, sorry. It's absolutely not
> necessary to copy the old hde with dd_rescue.
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Frank

Is it possible to assemble the array with just /dev/hdg?  I swear I saw an
option somewhere that allowed just such a thing but now I can't find it anywhere.

//andy