On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:43:52 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2008, Hendrik Boom wrote: ... >> > I've had trouble with removing drives if I didn't manually fail them. >> > Someone who knows the inner workings of mdadm might be able to >> > provide more information on that. >> >> I wonder if /dev/hdc3 still needs to be manually failed. I wonder if >> it is even possible to fail a removed drive... > > > Try adding it. If it works, then you're okay -- assuming the drive is > okay. If it doesn't work, you'll get an error message and it won't add > it.
There have been occasional reboots; presumably the add failed on reboot. I should perhaps check the system log. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
