Am Dienstag, 9. Mai 2006 07:50 schrieb Luca Berra: > you don't give a lot of information about your setup, You're sure right here, I was a bit off track yesterday from tinkering till night - info below. > in any case it could be something like udev and the /dev/sdd device node > not being available at boot? Ok: Slackware-current with kernel 2.6.14.6, *no* udev, plain old hotplug I had to put the raid start script in a reasonable place myself (not preconfed in Slack) so I have to figure yet if sees /etc/mdadm.conf when the script is called. (If presence of mdadm.conf is totally uninteresting, let me know, I just started on raid.) The other disks are seen fine, and since they are all the same type on the same controller there's no reason why it is not seen then. (Unless for some reason mdadm talks to the *last* disk first and then stops - else it should complain about sda rather.) ***** mdadm -E info ***** # mdadm -E /dev/sdd /dev/sdd: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.02 UUID : db7e5b65:e35c69dc:7c267a5a:e676c929 Creation Time : Mon May 8 00:05:16 2006 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 244198464 (232.89 GiB 250.06 GB) Array Size : 732595392 (698.66 GiB 750.18 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Tue May 9 00:43:46 2006 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 61f0ffd6 - correct Events : 0.24796 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 32K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 3 8 48 3 active sync /dev/sdd 0 0 8 0 0 active sync /dev/sda 1 1 8 16 1 active sync /dev/sdb 2 2 8 32 2 active sync /dev/sdc 3 3 8 48 3 active sync /dev/sdd ***** mdstat ***** Once I started the array manually (which works fine) mdstats look like: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid5] md0 : active raid5 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] 732563712 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] unused devices: <none> -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C+++(++++) UL+>++++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS++(+) PE(-) Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D G++ e* h>++ r%>* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.stop1984.com http://www.againsttcpa.com - 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