Hello Neil (& all) , Paint me embarassed . mdadm --examine --scan /dev/'An device in the array' NOT the md0 device itself . But I still do not get output that (IMO) appears to resemble a mdadm.conf output . All info necessary is in the output Just not in a mdadm.conf ready format (IMO) . Tnx , JimL On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > Hello Neil , 'mdadm --examine --scan /dev/md0' on my device > does not respond with 'creates some ARRAY lines suitable for > mdctl.conf' information . What I get is : > > # mdadm --examine --scan /dev/md0 > mdadm: No super block found on /dev/md0 (Expected magic a92b4efc, got 00000000) > > Using detail function I get the below . What am I doing wrong ? > Tia , JimL > > # mdadm -D /dev/md0 > /dev/md0: > Version : 00.90.00 > Creation Time : Sat Apr 14 06:16:46 2001 > Raid Level : raid5 > Array Size : 72195968 (68 GiB) > Device Size : 36097984 (34 GiB) > Raid Disks : 3 > Total Disks : 3 > Preferred Minor : 0 > Persistance : Superblock is persistant > > Update Time : Thu Mar 7 11:46:13 2002 > State : dirty, no-errors > Active Drives : 3 > Working Drives : 3 > Failed Drives : 0 > Spare Drives : 0 > > Layout : left-symmetric > Chunk Size : 32K > > Number Major Minor RaidDisk State > 0 8 17 0 active sync /dev/sdb1 > 1 8 33 1 active sync /dev/sdc1 > 2 8 49 2 active sync /dev/sdd1 > UUID : b285b144:ae0b561b:b5b55686:ed216a4c > > > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | > | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | > | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html