Hello Chris, Am Dienstag, 25. September 2012, 10:55:39 schrieb Chris Murphy: > On Sep 25, 2012, at 2:27 AM, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote: > > Dirty State : dirty > > Basically this is my only remaining concern, and while I don't know why it's > dirty, I think it needs to be resolved if you care about having RAID 1 in > the first place. My best guess is that neither md on Linux nor the IMSM > driver on Windows have an unambiguous way to determine which disk is > correct, which is why it hasn't just sync'd them. So you kinda have to pick > one (?) and force a sync - again I'll have to defer to someone else to > answer that question but it's probably not ideal to just leave it in a > dirty state. OK, I run the Intel Tool in windows two times with the last Tool I found. The Tool don't found any Problem (?) and don't repair, but mdadm.... /dev/sda: Magic : Intel Raid ISM Cfg Sig. Version : 1.1.00 Orig Family : e3958f4b Family : e3958f4b Generation : 00019ef2 Attributes : All supported UUID : 363f146f:e7f29dc8:f05996c3:577ead6a Checksum : 3e8b1bfe correct MPB Sectors : 1 Disks : 2 RAID Devices : 1 Disk00 Serial : 6QF4WDE3 State : active Id : 00000000 Usable Size : 625137928 (298.09 GiB 320.07 GB) [Volume0]: UUID : ec120401:b6ed52e6:3814fac4:48fcf4fc RAID Level : 1 Members : 2 Slots : [UU] Failed disk : none This Slot : 0 Array Size : 625137664 (298.09 GiB 320.07 GB) Per Dev Size : 625137928 (298.09 GiB 320.07 GB) Sector Offset : 0 Num Stripes : 2441944 Chunk Size : 64 KiB Reserved : 0 Migrate State : idle Map State : normal Dirty State : clean Disk01 Serial : 6QF4WF5Z State : active Id : 00000001 Usable Size : 625137928 (298.09 GiB 320.07 GB) /dev/sdb: Magic : Intel Raid ISM Cfg Sig. Version : 1.1.00 Orig Family : e3958f4b Family : e3958f4b Generation : 00019f47 Attributes : All supported UUID : 363f146f:e7f29dc8:f05996c3:577ead6a Checksum : 3e8c1c53 correct MPB Sectors : 1 Disks : 2 RAID Devices : 1 Disk01 Serial : 6QF4WF5Z State : active Id : 00000001 Usable Size : 625137928 (298.09 GiB 320.07 GB) [Volume0]: UUID : ec120401:b6ed52e6:3814fac4:48fcf4fc RAID Level : 1 Members : 2 Slots : [UU] Failed disk : none This Slot : 1 Array Size : 625137664 (298.09 GiB 320.07 GB) Per Dev Size : 625137928 (298.09 GiB 320.07 GB) Sector Offset : 0 Num Stripes : 2441944 Chunk Size : 64 KiB Reserved : 0 Migrate State : idle Map State : normal Dirty State : dirty °°°°°°° Disk00 Serial : 6QF4WDE3 State : active Id : 00000000 Usable Size : 625137928 (298.09 GiB 320.07 GB) -- mit freundlichen Grüßen / best Regards. Günther J. Niederwimmer -- 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