Can't rebuild RAID5?

I have a RAID5 array comprised of 8 scsi disks (/dev/sd[b-i]1) with /dev/sdb1 being the first disk of the array. I'm using raidtools-0.51 under kernel 2.0.35. The first disk /dev/sdb1 failed. the raid continues as normal like it should. Now when I try to replace the disk with another fresh 4g

md5 becomes mdf when mdadd'ed under 2.1.135 -- expected ?

[ I'm not on the list, so please ensure you reply to me directly, and feel free to point me at TFM to R ... ] Using 2.1.125 "out of the box", I manually edited MAX_MD_DEV in include/linux/md.h to allow more devices -- is there any other way to do this? Anyway, it all works just fine for the bo

Is this bad?

I've been testing my first RAID5 array, using Linux 2.1.124 and the latest alpha raidtools and patch from 10/5. Everything looks fine, but when I did a big directory copy using the GNU "time" command, like this: craig:/raid# time cp -ar bigdir bigdir.tmp I get this output: 0.06user 13.50syste