I have two sata disks in a raid0 array that show up on my system as hde and hdg. I tried adding an ide pata card, so I could add a few temporary disks to the system . That didn't go so well. However, I wasn't able to boot far enough to modify anything on the hard drives, so I pulled the pata card out and rebooted. Now, I'm getting the following error while starting the raid array: md: could not lock [dev 38:01], zero-size? Marking faulty. md: could not import [dev 38:01], trying to run array nevertheless. md: could not lock [dev 39:01], zero-size? Marking faulty. md: could not import [dev 39:01], trying to run array nevertheless. then a few lines later md: device name has changed from [dev 38:01] to hde1 since last import! I'm assuing its getting the old device names from the persistent-superblock, but I thought I'd at least be able to raidstart with a correct /etc/raidtab (it hasn't changed since I built the array), but I get the same errors then. I checked /dev, and there are no devices with a major number of 38 or 39. hde is 33 and hdg is 34. I don't know enough about the device system to know what would make those numbers change (but I was under the impression that they were pretty much 100% static), but the big question is, how can I get my raid0 array back? (or is this all a red herring and the disks are actually toast?) Thanks, Andrew ps. I just checked the smart data on the disks, and one has just one error and the other had 35, but the last errors occured after 390 hours, and the current power_on_hours is 4287. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
