From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Eikeland?= Subject: raid 5 created with 7 out of 8 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:38:37 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Eikeland?= Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi, I'm trying to set up a raid5 array using 8 ide drives ( /dev/hd[e-l] ) but I'm having a hard time. I'm using slackware 10, kernel 2.4.26 and madm 1.8.1 (downloading 2.4.28 overnight now) The problem is mdadm creates the array with 7 of 8 drives up and running and the last as a spare and does not start recovering with the spare. And it will not let me remove it and re-add it. Below follows a script output of the whole thing (less repartitioning the drives and zero'ing any remaining superblocks) Any help will be greatly appreciated. -thanks root@filebear:~# mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l5 -n8 -c512 /dev/hd[e-l]1 VERS = 9000 mdadm: array /dev/md0 started. root@filebear:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid5 hdl1[8] hdk1[6] hdj1[5] hdi1[4] hdh1[3] hdg1[2] hdf1[1] hde1[0] 1094017792 blocks level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [8/7] [UUUUUUU_] unused devices: root@filebear:~# mdadm /dev/md0 -f /dev/hdl1 mdadm: set /dev/hdl1 faulty in /dev/md0 root@filebear:~# mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/hdl mdadm: hot removed /dev/hdl1 root@filebear:~# mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/hdl1 mdadm: hot add failed for /dev/hdl1: No space left on device root@filebear:~# mdadm /dev/md0 -f /dev/hde1 mdadm: set /dev/hde1 faulty in /dev/md0 root@filebear:~# mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/hde1 mdadm: hot removed /dev/hde1 root@filebear:~# mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/hde1 mdadm: hot add failed for /dev/hde1: No space left on device