From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GJOyx-0002kd-O3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 06:27:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k826Q1F6022252; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 06:26:01 GMT Received: from web31801.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31801.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.64]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k826NxUj027806 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 06:23:59 GMT Received: (qmail 9481 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Sep 2006 06:23:58 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ichDyEzc3ieVc6Hw0jrdh0yU3swrBmwuzX1XkOdcdb/lSqF0Fl3BH/VHhmP3fyDRI1vWndALV/MhPv4H7bbyFYBCB0c3fdAWszwH7uqOfmTwwImuW65Aw1d2PLYGFURghD5PVH+DgthJj8CDLoX5P+iMJ8K8cq/GVMkVNME+EyI= ; Message-ID: <20060902062358.9479.qmail@web31801.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.54.196.198] by web31801.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:23:58 PDT Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:23:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Broersma Jr Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <7573e9640609012310v75980d37x7d4f68aa21b28b10@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: d3ab7f11-19a3-4c0e-9f53-a8098171da7c X-Archives-Hash: 52b7d8c31cd832065ff9f7608c9eecdc > I think you forgot to specify the mode. From man mdadm: > SYNOPSIS > mdadm [mode] [options] > If a device is given before any options, or if the first option is > --add, --fail, or --remove, then the MANAGE mode is assume. Anything > other than these will CAUSE THE MISC MODE TO BE ASSUMED. > (emphasis added) > So I think you need "mdadm manage /dev/md4 --add /dev/hdj1". Or > "mdadm --add /dev/md4 /dev/hdj1". I appreciate the feed back. Here is what I am getting. ~ # mdadm manage /dev/md4 --add /dev/hdj1 mdadm: An option must be given to set the mode before a second device is listed ~ # mdadm --add /dev/md4 /dev/hdj1 mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/hdj1 as 2: Invalid argument and for kicks :) ~ # mdadm manage --add /dev/md4 /dev/hdj1 mdadm: error opening manage: No such file or directory ~ # mdadm --add manage /dev/md4 /dev/hdj1 mdadm: error opening manage: No such file or directory Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list