Robin Bowes wrote: > > Well, at the risk of having a complete conversation with myself, I've > created partitions of type "fd" on each disk and re-created the array > out of the partitions instead of the whole disk. > > mdadm --create /dev/md2 --auto=yes --raid-devices=8 --level=6 /dev/sdc1 > /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdh1 /dev/sdi1 /dev/sdj1 > > I'm hoping this will enable the array to be auto-detected and started at > boot. That seemed to do the trick. I left the array to build overnight and rebooted this morning, and /dev/md2 started normally. R. - 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
