On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Mike Black wrote: > What do your boot messages show? They're probably wrong too as that > should be the same info as mdadm is asking for. dmesg shows : md: autorun ... md: considering sdg1 ... md: adding sdg1 ... md: adding sdi1 ... md: adding sdh1 ... md: adding sdf1 ... md: adding sde1 ... md: adding sdd1 ... md: adding sdc1 ... md: adding sdb1 ... md: created md0 md: bind<sdb1,1> md: bind<sdc1,2> md: bind<sdd1,3> md: bind<sde1,4> md: bind<sdf1,5> md: bind<sdh1,6> md: bind<sdi1,7> md: bind<sdg1,8> md: running: <sdg1><sdi1><sdh1><sdf1><sde1><sdd1><sdc1><sdb1> md: sdg1's event counter: 0000003a md: sdi1's event counter: 0000003a md: sdh1's event counter: 0000003a md: sdf1's event counter: 0000003a md: sde1's event counter: 0000003a md: sdd1's event counter: 0000003a md: sdc1's event counter: 0000003a md: sdb1's event counter: 0000003a md0: max total readahead window set to 1792k md0: 7 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 256k raid5: device sdg1 operational as raid disk 7 raid5: device sdi1 operational as raid disk 6 raid5: device sdh1 operational as raid disk 5 raid5: device sdf1 operational as raid disk 4 raid5: device sde1 operational as raid disk 3 raid5: device sdd1 operational as raid disk 2 raid5: device sdc1 operational as raid disk 1 raid5: device sdb1 operational as raid disk 0 raid5: allocated 8531kB for md0 raid5: raid level 5 set md0 active with 8 out of 8 devices, algorithm 0 RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:8 wd:8 fd:0 disk 0, s:0, o:1, n:0 rd:0 us:1 dev:sdb1 disk 1, s:0, o:1, n:1 rd:1 us:1 dev:sdc1 disk 2, s:0, o:1, n:2 rd:2 us:1 dev:sdd1 disk 3, s:0, o:1, n:3 rd:3 us:1 dev:sde1 disk 4, s:0, o:1, n:4 rd:4 us:1 dev:sdf1 disk 5, s:0, o:1, n:5 rd:5 us:1 dev:sdh1 disk 6, s:0, o:1, n:6 rd:6 us:1 dev:sdi1 disk 7, s:0, o:1, n:7 rd:7 us:1 dev:sdg1 RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:8 wd:8 fd:0 disk 0, s:0, o:1, n:0 rd:0 us:1 dev:sdb1 disk 1, s:0, o:1, n:1 rd:1 us:1 dev:sdc1 disk 2, s:0, o:1, n:2 rd:2 us:1 dev:sdd1 disk 3, s:0, o:1, n:3 rd:3 us:1 dev:sde1 disk 4, s:0, o:1, n:4 rd:4 us:1 dev:sdf1 disk 5, s:0, o:1, n:5 rd:5 us:1 dev:sdh1 disk 6, s:0, o:1, n:6 rd:6 us:1 dev:sdi1 disk 7, s:0, o:1, n:7 rd:7 us:1 dev:sdg1 md: updating md0 RAID superblock on device md: sdg1 [events: 0000003b]<6>(write) sdg1's sb offset: 117218176 md: sdi1 [events: 0000003b]<6>(write) sdi1's sb offset: 117218176 md: sdh1 [events: 0000003b]<6>(write) sdh1's sb offset: 117218176 md: sdf1 [events: 0000003b]<6>(write) sdf1's sb offset: 117218176 md: sde1 [events: 0000003b]<6>(write) sde1's sb offset: 117218176 md: sdd1 [events: 0000003b]<6>(write) sdd1's sb offset: 117218176 md: sdc1 [events: 0000003b]<6>(write) sdc1's sb offset: 117218176 md: sdb1 [events: 0000003b]<6>(write) sdb1's sb offset: 117218176 md: ... autorun DONE. > I don't want to reboot my system right now to check. don't think rebooting will fix the problem at your computer also (here it doesn't) - 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