On 5/21/05, Gerald Waugh <gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.com> wrote: > > > > You need to "reinsert" it manually. It's very well explained > > in this Howto: > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html > > See the section 6.3 to know how to add the new drive to the array. > > > > I tested this 3 days ago :) > > There has to be a better way than adding manually. > We ran RAID1 on 2.2 kernels for years, and anybody, could replace a > drive > And it would be added automagically... > > Maybe adding "auto" to mdadm.conf and better describing the devices. How is the system supposed to know that a once-broken drive is now not broken? You can have other failures beside disconnecting. Or which, if any, of your running partitions should overwrite the data on a freshly added disk that might already contain needed data? You can pre-configure spare devices if you want them to automatically replace failed ones but otherwise the system shouldn't do potentially destructive changes by itself. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com