From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: RAID5 not being reassembled correctly after device swap Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:35:18 -0400 Message-ID: <468BA216.40103@tmr.com> References: <200707012321.48346.infomails@tronserver.dyndns.org> <200707031916.50502.infomails@tronserver.dyndns.org> <468A98D5.9090206@dgreaves.com> <200707032129.10787.infomails@tronserver.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200707032129.10787.infomails@tronserver.dyndns.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Frotscher Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Michael Frotscher wrote: > I forgot, in case it's of any help. > mdadm -D gives after reassembly: > > [snip] > > Any ideas on why the drive keeps being removed? > Do you see anything in dmesg which would indicate an error on the drive? And could you share an "fdisk -l" output so we can see what the kernel thinks is on the drive? My guess is that for some reason the device is being considered unread, has the wrong partition type, or was low level formatted on a Monday. Okay, that last is unlikely ;-) -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979