From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Robert Stanford <rob@stanford.com.au>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: addingdrive to raid 1
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:17:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17927.43982.475535.846718@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Robert Stanford on Sunday March 25
On Sunday March 25, rob@stanford.com.au wrote:
> Hi All, Long time Linux software raid user, first real problem.
>
> I built md2 with 1 missing drive and am now trying to add a drive (hda4)
>
> The partition that is hda4 was previously part of another raid array
> md1 that no longer exists.
>
> I have zeroed the superblock in hda4, however when I try to add it it
> sync's instantly, no rebuild.
>
> The original raid array md1 is several years old and was built with the
> old raidtools package.
>
> I even ran
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda4
> just to be sure that nothing was left on the partition from the previous
> raid setup and still no joy.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
You didn't say what kernel version.
I'd guess 2.6.18. You want 2.6.18.2 or later to fix this problem.
NeilBrown
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2007-03-25 6:44 addingdrive to raid 1 Robert Stanford
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