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 1GJOrE-0000Zk-4c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 06:19:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k826HxXE002321; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 06:17:59 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k826Egv1028796 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 06:14:43 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so1419557wxc for ; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:14:42 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=dPhwJ5AuMeJavxykMuhXa/8VfO4mwKHVe0+aowWZqiYgnjJkd5FqUEn2v+wDZk19jBu7eFX6zyaajLMHEyVcDMGykhhaAXFli8Xcvg/EIT9UvWOQTTuKPPBDsnN2ohWgZ3VReCjLNHZYt073Ka8v62otuEq/GSFHBYJxgImOoOA= Received: by 10.70.11.11 with SMTP id 11mr5042172wxk; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:14:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.110.1 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:14:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640609012314w74e021aegbf8bdc8726a1d501@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:14:42 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060902041311.66336.qmail@web31815.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <7573e9640609012310v75980d37x7d4f68aa21b28b10@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 39ea54e612107300 X-Archives-Salt: 103eed9f-7608-4437-a32f-b69843321704 X-Archives-Hash: 807ff0b2c1307cd484254c07b57a8b9d On 9/1/06, Richard Fish wrote: > > Where is the invalid argument? Or is this error message you get when it is time to buy a new hard > > I think you forgot to specify the mode. From man mdadm: I should really learn to read better....sorry. Did you remove the faulty device first? IIRC, raid devices start numbering at 0, so it looks like this is trying to add a third device (#2), instead of replacing #0 or #1. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list