From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Cress, Andrew R" Subject: RE: Please help with a special RAID 1 setup Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 09:48:12 -0500 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: content-class: urn:content-classes:message To: Catalin BOIE , Mircea Ciocan Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Note that RAID-1 will only ever have a maximum of 2 active disks. When you add the 3rd disk, it is added to the array as a spare, that's why it doesn't rebuild. Andy -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Catalin BOIE Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:48 AM To: Mircea Ciocan Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please help with a special RAID 1 setup > >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 I think you must rebuid the /dec/md0 with mkraid --upgrade. Warning! You may destroy all data, so backup first. --- Catalin(ux) BOIE catab@deuroconsult.ro - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html