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Old 06-26-2003, 02:04 AM   #1
snoozy
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Question software raid - add device wrongly marked faulty back into array?


Anyone know how to add a device back to a raid array that has been marked faulty wrongly. I had one faulty disk in a 5 disk raid 5 array. I removed the wrong disk (!!) leaving me with just three active.

The array is meant to be
/dev/hdg7, /dev/hd[abcd]1

hdd1 failed, but I removed hdc1 (silly), leaving me with 3 disks, which of course is one too few, and the array won't start.

adding the hdc1 and hdd1 back again resulted in the config below.

How do I put hdc1 back as an active component of the array, without loosing the data?


/dev/hdc1:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 00.90.00
UUID : 80133016:4a916c25:9c8dbc88:a999a75b
Creation Time : Sat May 31 14:49:30 2003
Raid Level : raid5
Device Size : 78148096 (74.53 GiB 80.02 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 6
Preferred Minor : 0

Update Time : Wed Jun 25 08:44:13 2003
State : clean, no-errors
Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 4
Failed Devices : 2
Spare Devices : 2
Checksum : 3c72c90d - correct
Events : 0.35

Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 64K

Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 5 22 1 5 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1
0 0 34 7 0 active sync /dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/part7
1 1 3 1 1 active sync /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
2 2 3 65 2 active sync /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
3 3 0 0 3 faulty removed
4 4 0 0 4 faulty removed
5 5 22 1 5 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1
6 6 22 65 6 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part1

 
Old 06-26-2003, 03:23 AM   #2
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are you using mdadm or the old raidttools?
 
Old 06-27-2003, 03:11 PM   #3
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I'm using mdadm. I did have a go at restarting it with raidtools using raidstart with config file below, but no good:

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raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 5
nr-raid-disks 5
persistent-superblock 1
parity-algorithm left-symmetric
chunk-size 64
device /dev/hdg7
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hda1
raid-disk 1
device /dev/hdb1
raid-disk 2
device /dev/hdc1
raid-disk 3
device /dev/hdd1
raid-disk 4

 
  


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