Joshua Johnson wrote:
Greetings, long time listener, first time caller. I recently replaced a disk in my existing 8 disk RAID 6 array. Previously, all disks were PATA drives connected to the motherboard IDE and 3 promise Ultra 100/133 controllers. I replaced one of the Promise controllers with a Via 64xx based controller, which has 2 SATA ports and one PATA port. I connected a new SATA drive to the new card, partitioned the drive and added it to the array. After 5 or 6 hours the resyncing process finished and the array showed up complete. Upon rebooting I discovered that the new drive had not been added to the array when it was assembled on boot. I resynced it and tried again -- still would not persist after a reboot. I moved one of the existing PATA drives to the new controller (so I could have the slot for network), rebooted and rebuilt the array. Now when I reboot BOTH disks are missing from the array (sda and sdb). Upon examining the disks it appears they think they are part of the array, but for some reason they are not being added when the array is being assembled. For example, this is a disk on the new controller which was not added to the array after rebooting:
What is your partition system ? When I have tried to created a raid6 array over a SunOS partition type, I have seen this bug. Never on PC system.
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