odd.  does dmesg spit anything useful out?

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 01:21:11AM +0200, Niels Poppe wrote:
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> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 06:05:35PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > On Oct 24, 2010, at 17:54, Niels Poppe <niels@netbox.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I have (err, had) this working array:
> > > 
> > > # bioctl softraid0
> > > Volume  Status               Size Device
> > > softraid0 0 Online         3997412864 sd2     RAID1
> > >      0 Online         3997412864 0:0.0   noencl <sd1a>
> > >      1 Online         3997412864 0:1.0   noencl <sd0a>
> > > 
> > > Now, with one drive unplugged, i get:
> > > 
> > > # bioctl softraid0
> > > Volume  Status               Size Device
> > > softraid0 0 Degraded       3997412864 sd2     RAID1
> > >      0 Online         3997412864 0:0.0   noencl <sd1a>
> > >      1 Offline        3997412864 0:1.0   noencl <sd0a>
> > > 
> > > With sd0 replaced again, i expected
> > > "bioctl -R sd0 softraid0" to give an error
> > > "bioctl -R sd0 sd2" to start a rebuild.
> > > 
> > 
> > bioctl -R sd0a sd2
> > 
> 
> That is good to know, meaning, something else is broken:
> 
> # bioctl -R sd0a sd2
> bioctl: Target sd0a: target not specified
> 
> Would it be interesting to investigate what's on the devices
> or should I just re-create the whole thing from scratch?