From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: mdadm creating raid5 with all spare disks
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:10:06 +1100
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On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:15:09 -0500
Matt Tehonica <matt.tehonica@mac.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I was just wondering if anyone else has seen a problem when creating a  
> RAID5 where mdadm will create it and it shows all disks as spares and  
> above it shows all drives as removed. I can't seem to figure this. Any  
> sugestions would be great.

Maybe the raid456 modules isn't getting loaded?

If you show us the exact command, the exact contents of /proc/mdstat,
and any kernel log messages generated at the time it will be a lot easier
to explain what is happening.

NeilBrown