Re: Replacing MOBO seems to have disappeared my software RAID1...?

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Also, is there any way you can go back to your old motherboard?  And
does the old Linux OS installed on sda and sdb (I assume) still boot
ok on the new motherboard?  But just your data volume(s) aren't being
found?

John


Signup> Thanks for the sympathy :)  I definitely did not use any hardware RAID 
Signup> controllers on the original MOBO - I knew it would be replaced sooner or 
Signup> later, so I was sure to use software RAID.  I used mdadm to create the 
Signup> RAID, like so:  "mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=1 
Signup> --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1".

Signup> Sadly I don't have any info such as lsdev from the previous set up :(

Signup> I know that files are still intact on the drive showing a partition 
Signup> still extant, as I ran foremost on it to see if there was indeed 
Signup> anything still on it.



Signup> $ cat /proc/partitions
Signup> major minor  #blocks  name

Signup>     8        0  976762584 sda
Signup>     8        4          1 sda4
Signup>     8        5  922029056 sda5
Signup>     8        6    2097152 sda6
Signup>     8        7   52630528 sda7
Signup>     8       16  234431064 sdb
Signup>     8       17  232428544 sdb1
Signup>     8       18    2000896 sdb2
Signup>     8       32 3907018584 sdc
Signup>     8       33 3907016704 sdc1
Signup>    11        0    1048575 sr0
Signup>     8       48 3907018584 sdd



Signup> $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sda4; sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sda5; sudo 
Signup> mdadm --examine /dev/sda6; sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sda7; sudo mdadm 
Signup> --examine /dev/sdb1; sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdb2
Signup> /dev/sda4:
Signup>     MBR Magic : aa55
Signup> Partition[0] :   1844058112 sectors at         2048 (type 07)
Signup> Partition[1] :      4194564 sectors at   1949325052 (type 05)
Signup> /dev/sda5:
Signup>     MBR Magic : aa55
Signup> Partition[0] :   1701990410 sectors at    218129509 (type 72)
Signup> Partition[1] :    543974724 sectors at    729050177 (type 74)
Signup> Partition[3] :        51635 sectors at   2692939776 (type 00)
Signup> mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sda6.
Signup> mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sda7.
Signup> mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sdb1.
Signup> mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sdb2.



Signup> On 12/11/2018 12:34 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
>> Ouch!  This isn't a great time.  Can you do:
>> 
>> mdadm --examine /dev/sda1
>> mdadm --examine /dev/sdb1
>> 
>> 
>> You should do this for all four disks, and all partitions on each of
>> the disks.  Also, can you show:
>> 
>> cat /proc/partitions
>> 
>> as well.  But maybe you setup hardware RAID on your old motherboard?
>> Can you provide more details on how you have the old one setup and
>> what model it was?   Did you use the Intel software by any chance?
>> 
>> Do you have an 'lsdev' output from before the motherboard swap?
>> 
>> Good luck!
>> John
>> 
>> 

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