Re: n2100, failed raid 1 disk: cannot shutdown

[Joachim Beckers <joachim.beckers@gmail.com>]

Can you power off just that disk? i.e. by unplugging it's power  
connector. That should definitely stop the kernel from trying to  
access it, right? :-)

On 17 May 2008, at 11:02, Michele Bini wrote:

> Michele Bini wrote:
> > [...] But then I tried to shutdown (via shutdown -r now) and I  
> > cannot.
>
> I forgot to say that the failed disk (/dev/sda) is completely dead  
> (probably on-board electronics problem, as accessing it gives i/o  
> errors on each and every block and the hd light is stuck on).
>
> Also, blindly guessing, I tried and removed the dead disk from the  
> array:
>
> # mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/sda1
> # mdadm /dev/md1 -r /dev/sda3
>
> but nothing changed.
>
>
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