On 22:41, Neil Brown wrote: > > # mdadm /dev/md1 -a /dev/hdd1 > > mdadm: cannot find valid superblock in this array - HELP > > Can you > strace -o /tmp/trace mdadm /dev/md1 -a /dev/hdd1 > > and send me /tmp/trace? Here it comes. Andre --- execve("/sbin/mdadm", ["mdadm", "/dev/md1", "-a", "/dev/hdd1"], [/* 99 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="raspe", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x806a000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/glibc-2.3.6/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=44713, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 44713, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f4d000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0O\1\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1175704, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f4c000 mmap2(NULL, 1162428, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7e30000 mmap2(0xb7f46000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x116) = 0xb7f46000 mmap2(0xb7f4a000, 7356, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f4a000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7e2f000 mprotect(0xb7f46000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0xb7f6d000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7e2f6b0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 munmap(0xb7f4d000, 44713) = 0 time(NULL) = 1140955660 getpid() = 1392 brk(0) = 0x806a000 brk(0x808b000) = 0x808b000 open("/dev/md1", O_RDWR) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(9, 1), ...}) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x800c0910, 0xbfd671d0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80480911, 0xbfd67310) = 0 stat64("/dev/hdd1", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(22, 65), ...}) = 0 open("/dev/hdd1", O_RDONLY|O_EXCL) = 4 ioctl(4, BLKGETSIZE64, 0xbfd670f0) = 0 ioctl(4, BLKFLSBUF, 0) = 0 _llseek(4, 263061504, [263061504], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(4, "\374N+\251\0\0\0\0Z\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0a7h\220hTiC\1"..., 4096) = 4096 close(4) = 0 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(9, 1), ...}) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x800c0910, 0xbfd67090) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 lstat64("/dev", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=5, ...}) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x80140912, 0xbfd672f0) = 0 write(2, "mdadm: cannot find valid superbl"..., 57) = 57 exit_group(1) = ? -- The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe - 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