From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David M. Strang" Subject: Re: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:34:07 -0400 Message-ID: <00c901c5ae73$b80e3ca0$c100a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> References: <003401c5ae61$d982b5d0$c100a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> <4316050B.1060805@tls.msk.ru> <005201c5ae63$ef23e6f0$c100a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> <43160DF2.6000504@tls.msk.ru> <007401c5ae6a$7e9cd160$c100a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> <1125520778.3194.18.camel@x1-6-00-0d-60-fd-e8-4c> <008b01c5ae6c$e4db5e90$c100a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> <1125521616.3194.22.camel@x1-6-00-0d-60-fd-e8-4c> <00ab01c5ae6f$1bb27410$c100a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> <43162122.703@tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Tokarev Cc: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Tokarev To: David M. Strang Cc: Linux RAID Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 5:29 PM Subject: Re: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device Michael Tokarev wrote: > David M. Strang wrote: > [] > > > Is there something a little deeper to this error message? > > > > Aug 31 04:48:15 abyss kernel: scsi2 (12:0): rejecting I/O to offline > > device > > Aug 31 04:48:15 abyss kernel: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling > > device. > > If you reread my message, I hope you will find a bit of clue: > > echo y > /sys/block/sdm/device/delete > (or something like that anyway.) > > That's needed for exactly this purpose: to remove a device which is > marked 'offline' in the kernel somewhere - to be able to re-add it > later - either with this script or just doing that magic add-single-device > command manually. I should have listened sooner; I wasn't able to follow the paths in the re-add command, so I didn't do the delete. I did the delete (the above syntax is correct) -- ran the rescan script, it added it back - and the device is accessable again. Thank you Michael & Forrest. -- David