From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mircea Ciocan Subject: Re: Please help with a special RAID 1 setup Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:23:30 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FFC0852.8060407@interplus.ro> References: <3FFBDC7A.8020702@interplus.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: Catalin BOIE Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Catalin BOIE wrote: >> Here are some relevant data of the test setup that may be usefull: >>[root@test]# cat /etc/raidtab >>raiddev /dev/md0 >>raid-level 1 >>nr-raid-disks 2 >>nr-spare-disks 0 >>chunk-size 4 >>persistent-superblock 1 >>device /dev/sda2 >>raid-disk 0 >>device /dev/sdb2 >>raid-disk 1 >> >> > >I think that you must replace: > nr-raid-disks 2 >with > nr-raid-disks 3 >Plus, the correspinding entry: > device /dev/sdb3 > raid-disk 2 > >Else, the third drive isn't recognized as part of the md array. >Probably, you must restart the array (only first time). >You may want to use mdadm instead of raidtools. > > > Modified config file, umounted and stoped raid, restarted raid, hotadded the disk, still the same results :(. Any other ideeas ?? Mircea