From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Blendinger Subject: Re: will mdadm work with a raid created using raidtools Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:47:27 +0100 Message-ID: <20060216174727.GH8762@intoxicatedmind.net> References: <43F37BFB.4030908@gmail.com> <17395.45134.227188.527148@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20060216171413.GG8762@intoxicatedmind.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tcC6YSqBgqqkz7Sb" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --tcC6YSqBgqqkz7Sb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > >=20 > > Then you can try to create the array with the new disk and hope that > > it will work. >=20 >=20 > I thought the whole idea of a raid 1 was that if one drive went bad I cou= ld 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 --tcC6YSqBgqqkz7Sb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD9Lqvcs96QQvy/noRAhhPAKDAgpph7+edCd1GOrRQKflyAzHi5ACfX0FU Kpd/7NWCLMhzgr+sFy+lH88= =r0D2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tcC6YSqBgqqkz7Sb--