Re: Crashing a software raid 5 partition ( disk trouble )

[Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de>]

On Thursday 12 June 2003 12:06, Nicolas Meaux wrote:
> Thanks for you quick respond Neil  ;)
>
> >    mdadm -A --force /dev/md2 /dev/sd[a-f]
>
> So, i type this command :
>
> # mdadm -A --force /dev/md2 /dev/sd[a-h]
> mdadm: /dev/md2 has been started with 7 drives.
>
> ( i do a [a-h] , because i have 8 scsi disk )
>
> I try too mount md2, it work fine, but :
> # ls -al
> ls: nohup.out: Input/output error
> ls: tape.sh: Input/output error
> ls: .viminfo: Input/output error
> ls: .bash_history: Input/output error
> ls: .bashrc~: Input/output error
> ls: .xauth: Input/output error
>
> It seem that there is many errors on the partition.
> So, in good newbie, i decided too reboot the machine, but now and since one
> hour, he is blocking on these lines :
>
> [...]
> md: updating md2 RAID superblock device
> md: sdg [events: 000005a]<6>write sdg's sb offset 35843584
> md: sdh [events: 000005a]<6>write sdh's sb offset 35843584
> md: sde [events: 000005a]<6>write sde's sb offset 35843584
> md: sdd [events: 000005a]<6>write sdd's sb offset 35843584
>

Hi,

why are you rebooting that often ? Even after sdd failed I wouldn't have 
rebooted that fast. Just do 'cat /proc/mdstat' and see in what state your 
raid-array is!

Bernd