From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Raid 1, can't get the second disk added back in.
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:47:07 +1100
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In-Reply-To: message from Jim on Monday January 7
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On Monday January 7, jim@fayettedigital.com 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 :-)

NeilBrown