Re: Creating failed-mode RAID1 with mdadm

On Tuesday April 30, ross@willow.seitz.com wrote:

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# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1

I get:

mdadm: Cannot open /dev/hdg1: No such device or address
mdadm: create aborted

Hmmm, funny - as it turns out, mdadm actually created the array and
started it with /dev/hdg1 failed.  It just said it didn't.

That surprises me?   Are you in a position to try it again and see?
If so, what version of mdadm?

NeilBrown