From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Nelson Subject: Re: will mdadm work with a raid created using raidtools Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:31:06 -0600 Message-ID: References: <43F37BFB.4030908@gmail.com> <17395.45134.227188.527148@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20060216171413.GG8762@intoxicatedmind.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060216171413.GG8762@intoxicatedmind.net> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Frank Blendinger wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:15:27AM -0600, Andrew Nelson wrote: > >>Feb 14 21:58:36 localhost kernel: hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 >>Feb 14 21:58:46 localhost kernel: hde: DMA timeout error >>Feb 14 21:58:46 localhost kernel: hde: dma timeout error: status=0x51 { DriveRea >>dy SeekComplete Error } >>Feb 14 21:58:46 localhost kernel: hde: dma timeout error: error=0x40 { Uncorrect >>ableError }, LBAsect=1594001, high=0, low=1594001, sector=1593535 >>Feb 14 21:58:46 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 159353 >>5 >> >>Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? > > > 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. > > Then you can try to create the array with the new disk and hope that > it will work. > I thought the whole idea of a raid 1 was that if one drive went bad I could just plug a new drive in and the raid would rebuild without problems. What have I done wrong so that this isn't possible? //andy