From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tokarev Subject: Re: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 01:29:06 +0400 Message-ID: <43162122.703@tls.msk.ru> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <00ab01c5ae6f$1bb27410$c100a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "David M. Strang" Cc: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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. /mjt