[opensuse] Re-adding RAID drives

2007-06-24 Thread James Knott
I've now got SUSE 10.2 set up with RAID and LVM on my server. However, I don't seem to be able to re-add a "failed" drive, without rebooting. The drives are hot-swapable. When I use the command mdadm /dev/md0/ -add /dev/sdxx I get a "device busy" error message. Even removing the drive with the

Re: [opensuse] Re-adding RAID drives

2007-06-24 Thread Rui Santos
James Knott wrote: > I've now got SUSE 10.2 set up with RAID and LVM on my server. However, > I don't seem to be able to re-add a "failed" drive, without rebooting. > The drives are hot-swapable. When I use the command mdadm /dev/md0/ > -add /dev/sdxx I get a "device busy" error message. Even

Re: [opensuse] Re-adding RAID drives

2007-06-24 Thread Rui Santos
Rui Santos wrote: > James Knott wrote: >> I've now got SUSE 10.2 set up with RAID and LVM on my server. However, >> I don't seem to be able to re-add a "failed" drive, without rebooting. >> The drives are hot-swapable. When I use the command mdadm /dev/md0/ >> -add /dev/sdxx I get a "device b

Re: [opensuse] Re-adding RAID drives

2007-06-24 Thread James Knott
Rui Santos wrote: > Rui Santos wrote: > >> James Knott wrote: >> >>> I've now got SUSE 10.2 set up with RAID and LVM on my server. However, >>> I don't seem to be able to re-add a "failed" drive, without rebooting. >>> The drives are hot-swapable. When I use the command mdadm /dev/md0/

Re: [opensuse] Re-adding RAID drives

2007-06-24 Thread Rui Santos
James Knott wrote: > Rui Santos wrote: >> Rui Santos wrote: >> >>> James Knott wrote: >>> I've now got SUSE 10.2 set up with RAID and LVM on my server. However, I don't seem to be able to re-add a "failed" drive, without rebooting. The drives are hot-swapable. When I use

Re: [opensuse] Re-adding RAID drives

2007-06-24 Thread James Knott
Rui Santos wrote: > James Knott wrote: > >> Rui Santos wrote: >> >>> Rui Santos wrote: >>> >>> James Knott wrote: > I've now got SUSE 10.2 set up with RAID and LVM on my server. However, > I don't seem to be able to re-add a "failed" drive, wi

Re: [opensuse] Re-adding RAID drives

2007-06-25 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-06-24 at 23:06 -0400, James Knott wrote: > netfinity:~ # mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdd2 > mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdd2 as 4: Invalid argument > > If I now reboot, I'll be able to add the drive, using the same command,

Re: [opensuse] Re-adding RAID drives

2007-06-25 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 11:49 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Sunday 2007-06-24 at 23:06 -0400, James Knott wrote: > > > > netfinity:~ # mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdd2 > > mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdd2 as 4: Invalid argument > >

Re: [opensuse] Re-adding RAID drives

2007-06-25 Thread James Knott
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 11:49 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Sunday 2007-06-24 at 23:06 -0400, James Knott wrote: > > > >>> netfinity:~ # mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdd2 > >>> mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdd2 as 4: Invalid argument > >>> > >>> If I now reboot,

Re: [opensuse] Re-adding RAID drives

2007-06-25 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Sunday 2007-06-24 at 23:06 -0400, James Knott wrote: > > > > netfinity:~ # mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdd2 > > mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdd2 as 4: Invalid argument > > > If I now reboot, I'll be able to add the drive, using the same command, > > like so. > >

Re: [opensuse] Re-adding RAID drives

2007-06-25 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 6/25/07, Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 4. insert the new disks. One more thing: I have a udev rule so my SATA disks have the same kernel name when they are put in the same physical slot (I have 4 removable SATS disks bays). If you do not have this, sdd can become sde (and s

Re: [opensuse] Re-adding RAID drives

2007-06-25 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 16:26 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 6/25/07, Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 4. insert the new disks. > > > > > > > One more thing: I have a udev rule so my SATA disks have the same kernel > > name when they are put in the same physical slot (I have 4 remo