Do you think the latest version at http://git.neil.brown.name/?p=mdadm.git;a=summary is stable enough to use? It definitely fixes the major issue (losing the raid config) from the prior version. On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:26 AM, David F. <df7729@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks. > > 1) The update did fix the broken RAID. I can reboot and the RAID > mirror still exists after reboots. > > 2) I do want to report that on the first test, the reboot was clean. > On the second reboot there was a warning message about the BIOS > detecting "Inconsistent Timestamps" on one of the drives and something > about which CONFIG the BIOS would use. I didn't have time to get it > all jotted down. Whatever it used was still okay since the RAID > mirror was still there after that message. > > > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:35 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, 11 May 2015 09:31:26 -0700 "David F." <df7729@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> any progress or more information needed on this? >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:39 PM, David F. <df7729@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > If you need access to the system, a network kvm is available - or if >>> > you have a C600 based system, you should see the same problem there. >>> > >>> > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 1:07 PM, David F. <df7729@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >> Okay, and to confirm, this is happening on other C600 based systems. >>> >> Boot to Linux with MDADM raid support and the raid is gone after >>> >> reboot. >>> >> >>> >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 5:50 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 14:13:05 -0700 "David F." <df7729@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hello, >>> >>>> >>> >>>> I built a new system, installed new drives (no partitioning, just raw >>> >>>> new drives), configured RAID 1, boot to linux, created reports >>> >>>> attached. Rebooted and the system doesn't see any configured raid >>> >>>> drives (just the two raw drives). >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks. I might take a look, but I would greatly prefer it if you kept the >>> >>> linux-raid list on the Cc..... >>> >>> >>> >>> NeilBrown >>> >>> >> >> I must confess that I haven't even looked at it. >> But I just saw and email on linux-raid from Martin Wilck: >> >> Subject: [PATCH] DDF: _write_super_to_disk: fix anchor header type >> >> which very likely fixes your problem. I've applied it and pushed out to >> git://neil.brown.name/mdadm/ >> >> NeilBrown -- 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