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List:       linux-raid
Subject:    Re: mdadd / mirror addition fails when drive is not online.
From:       Gadi Oxman <gadio () netvision ! net ! il>
Date:       1998-02-19 11:16:20
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Rob Cotrone wrote:

...
> I tried the suggestion of adding the drives without use of the /etc/mdtab.
> Here are the results.
> 
> mdadd /dev/md5 /dev/hda5
> REGISTER_DEV: hda5 to md5 done.
> mdadd /dev/md5 /dev/hdc5
> md_add(): zero device size, huh, bailing out
> REGISTER_DEV: hdc5 to md5 done.

The above line is probably the culprit.. this particular bug was fixed in
the latest 2.0.x release (raid145-971022-2.0.31 in the ALPHA directory), and
in the 2.1.x kernels, but I think that all the earlier releases had the bug.

Gadi

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