On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:40:48PM -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > I then created 3 raid1 arrays > mdadm -Cv -n2 -l1 /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 > mdadm -Cv -n2 -l1 /dev/md1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 > mdadm -Cv -n2 -l1 /dev/md2 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 Are you 100% sure that you didn't do: mdadm -Cv -n2 -l1 /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb, etc, etc? (ie, note lack of subdevice for partition!!!) That's the only thing I can image that would cause this: > Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF > disklabel It sounds like you created md devices out of whole disks instead of partitions and overwrote the partition information. I don't *think* this should be a problem, but I don't 100% know... Try this to see if it finds your array: mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb > however I did not!! (?evil) umount the different devices > /dev/md0 /dev/md1 /dev/md2 before doing that. When you shutdown cleanly, your system's scripts almost certainly did that for you! ::-) -- Ross Vandegrift ross@xxxxxxxxxxxx "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 - 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
