> I received the error : mdadm: superblock on /dev/sdc1 doesn't match > others - assembly aborted. I got that when using an older version of mdadm (2.6.7.1). According to Neil, it's been fixed already so try using the latest version (3.0) and do this: mdadm -Af /dev/md0 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdd1 (No need to specify a missing one). I avoided creating another array. No matter what the situation is, it would be the last thing I'd ever do, because I want to keep the metadata as intact as possible to get the most info I can out of it to fix the situation. And my motherboard keeps changing names like crazy, so if I create a new array, I may not be able to find the original disks' order again (not easily). On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Tim Bostrom <tbostrom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, thank god I copied everything off the array this weekend, but strange: > > I had gotten the array up finally with the correct order and missing drive: > > mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l 5 -n 5 -c 256 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdd1 missing > > ------------ > After copying everything off, I power-cycled my server and tried to > bring the array back up again using: > > mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdd1 missing > > I received the error : mdadm: superblock on /dev/sdc1 doesn't match > others - assembly aborted. > > This is strange since I had this seemingly working and was able to > copy all the data offline this weekend. > Drives haven't changed order - I haven't unplugged anything or changed > any cords. > > Another issue of the command that worked before on the array: > mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l 5 -n 5 -c 256 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdd1 missing > > yields my old problem of not being able to mount. > EXT3-fs: md0: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features > (3fd18e00). > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md0, > missing codepage or helper program, or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so -- Majed B. -- 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